Bridging the Gap: Literary Theory in the Classroom Book

	Notes on Contributors
	Preface
	Introduction
	On the Teaching of Literary Theory	3
	Other Voices, Other Rooms: Organizing and Teaching the Humanities Conflict	15
	Teaching Post-Colonial Literary Theory	41
	Teaching Literature and Theology: A Lesson in Two Parts	55
	Shouldn't These Theories Be Tested?	71
	Threshold Texts and Essayistic Voices	85
	"Who on Earth Is George W.M. Reynolds?" Literature, Teaching, Politics	97
	Narratology: What We Read When We Read Raymond Carver's "So Much Water So Close to Home"	113
	"By Any Other Name": Theoretical Issues in the Teaching of Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Autobiography	129
	Travel Writing, Women of Color, and the Undergraduate Romantics Course	145
	Deconstruction in the Classroom: Jane Austen's Persuasion	167
	The Beggar's Opera and Literary Historiography: Critical Pluralism as Strategy for Teaching a Canonical Text	181
	Paradise Lost and the Theory Survey	203
	"But You Must Learn to Know Such Slanders of the Age": Literary Theory in the Study of Shakespeare	219
	Problems in Search of Solutions: Teaching Theory in the Classroom	247
	"Yung and Easily Freudened": Psychoanalytic Theory in the Literary Classroom	261
	On Site: If On a Winter's Night a Traveler and Creative Pedagogy	285
	Rhetoric, Reader-Response Theory, and Teaching Literature	301
	Malory and Macherey, Ballads and Belsey: Teaching Theory and the Medieval Text	317
	Humanism and the Teaching of Theory	331
	Select Bibliography	351
	Index	367