Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403969125)

Few could deny that the contemporary is the chronic blind spot in most liberal arts curricula. Many "twentieth century lit." courses still don't cover much after the mid-fifties; other disciplines in the humanities don't acknowledge poetry at all as part of the study of the contemporary. The essays collected here suggestively address the possibilities, pleasures, and risks of teaching from the multiplicity of poetries that have proliferated since the sixties. They discuss how to create a lively, investigative poetry classroom and suggest ways to work with cultural implications of poetry in society. The aim is to invite students to experience and make meaning of the poetics of our contemporary world, one that is blatantly "multi"-multi-cultural, lingual, racial, and ethnic.

Author: J. Retallack
ISBN-10: 1403969124
ISBN-13: 9781403969125
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2006
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.52h x 6.04w x 0.89d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2006 pg. 294
Library Journal 09/18/2006