Knowledge in the Making: Challenging the Text in the Classroom Book

	Introduction
1	Balancing Reader Response and Cultural Theory and Practice	3
2	Alone but Not Alone: Situating Readers in School Contexts	25
3	Entering the Discourse: Learning the Languages of Literature	35
4	Beyond Comprehension: Poststructuralist Readings in the English Classroom	61
5	Every Newsstand Has Them: Teaching Popular Teenage Magazines	73
6	Unfixing Meaning: Challenges of Poststructuralist Theory for Classroom Literary Study	91
7	Read It Once, Read It Twice	109
8	Shakespeare, Branagh, and Popular Culture	119
9	Thinking Through Our Book Conversations with Children	129
10	Misreading Movies	141
11	Teachers Reading, Writing, and Responding Together: A Story	149
12	Works of Literature or the Play of Texts? Unconventional Writing in the Secondary Classroom	165
13	Plucked from the Labyrinth: Intention, Interpretation, and Interactive Narratives	179
14	Unraveling the Romance: Strategies for Understanding Textual Ideology	193
15	Chancing It a Bit: Developing Response to Metaphor	201
16	The Unutterable Response: Reading for Literary Meaning	217
17	Imagining Literature at the Point of Utterance	233
18	Stories of Reading	245
19	Deconstructing Classroom Frames	259
20	Rosenblatt and the Ethics of Reading	273
21	Scenes from the Reading Workshop	283
	Afterthoughts	295
	Credits	305
	Bibliography	307
	Contributors	317