College English, Vol. 59, No. 2, February 1997

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• The Ethics of Dialogue: Bakhtin and Levinas

  Jeffrey T. Nealon

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  Abstract: Examines the pedagogy of African-American elocutionist Hallie Quinn Brown (1845-1949), professor of elocution at Wilberforce University from 1893 to 1923, as it addresses pedagogical issues still important today, such as how rhetorical instruction should address the needs of those who have a different linguistic heritage and culture.

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• Repositioning Ourselves in the Contact Zone

  Phyllis van Slyck

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  Abstract: Examines classroom dialog about arranged marriages in Ali Ghalem's "A Wife for My Son" (as well as several other postcolonial, nonwestern texts) as a means of defining and sharing appropriate curricular and pedagogical modes for classroom discourse and discussion. Urges rethinking the boundaries of English studies and redefining the study of literature more broadly.

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• Silence is Consent, or Curse Ye Meroz!

  Richard Levin

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  Abstract: Examines assumptions of "oppositional" literary criticism, namely the assumption that older-style "objective" literary criticism must, in its political silence, be supportive of dominant ideologies.

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• Opinion: Multi-Vocal Texts and Interpretive Responsibility

  Gesa E. Kirsch

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  Abstract: Examines the effects of reading and writing multivocal texts and argues that writers need to assume interpretive responsibility for creating new forms of discourse.

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• POEMS

  Indira Karamcheti, David Martin, Kathrine Varnes

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• REVIEW: Cather Criticism and the American Canon

  Phyllis Frus and Stanley Corkin

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• COMMENT & RESPONSE: TWO COMMENTS ON “THE NERVOUS SYSTEM”

  Lex Runciman, John Schilb/Richard E. Miller

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