College English, Vol. 59, No. 3, March 1997

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• Donnes "The Token": A Lesson in the Fashion(ing) of Canon

  James S. Baumlin

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  Abstract: Argues for the canonicity of "Sonnet: The Token," a John Donne poem whose authorship has been in doubt for some decades. Employs deconstruction as its critical approach, though that approach is nearly passe in Renaissance studies, and it calls the issue of authorship into question.

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• Marginally Off-Center: Postcolonialism in the Teaching Machine

  Deepika Bahri

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  Abstract: Locates postcolonial pedagogy within the context of institutional circuits of production and consumption, finding that instead of expanding the student's experience with difference and diversity, it contains them through a managed encounter with otherness.

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• Students Goals, Gatekeeping, and Some Questions of Ethics

  Jeff Smith

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  Abstract: Examines assumptions underlying the ubiquitous distaste for gatekeeping evident in composition studies scholarship: namely, that the matter of gatekeeping can be settled by writing teachers themselves; and that students themselves need not be consulted about gatekeeping.

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• POEMS

  Franco Pagnucci, Rina Ferrarelli

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• REVIEW: Reclaiming the Public Sphere

  Joseph Harris

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• REVIEW: Ends and Means of Schooling

  John S. Mayher

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• COMMENTS & RESPONSE: A COMMENT ON “POLITICS AND ORDINARY LANGUAGE”

  Alan W. France / Thomas G. O'Donnell; John Champagne / Donald Morton

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