College English, Vol. 61, No. 1, September 1998

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• The Arts of Complicity: Pragmatism and the Culture of Schooling

  Richard E. Miller

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  Abstract: Reflects on Paulo Freire's place in pedagogical history and why his representation of the power of teaching holds such an appeal for so many educators. Considers why it is that the image of the teacher as liberator of the oppressed, upon which Freire's pedagogy relies so heavily, has had such a perduring appeal.

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• Cather, Woolf, and the Two Mrs. Ramsays

  Deborah Lindsay Williams

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  Abstract: Discusses Willa Cather's novel "Lucy Gayheart," which provides the only public access to Cather's sense of connection to Virginia Woolf, a writer she admired. Uses Cather's "provocative" placement of Mrs. Ramsay as a way to re-frame thinking about this novel. Considers it as an experimental modernist novel.

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• The Ethics of Teaching Literature

  Wayne C. Booth

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  Abstract: States that a number of college literature and composition teachers have shown that they care intensely about ethical issues, although they express themselves in the language of postmodernism rather than that of traditional ethics. Claims the traditional ethical goal of building "character" can be harmonized with the postmodern effort to build "selves"--persons with a "useful" ethical center.

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• (Re)Reenvisioning the Dissertation in English Studies

  Gary A. Olsen and Julie Drew

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  Abstract: Contends that the academy has forgotten the origin of the dissertation and has turned it from a substantive contribution of scholarship to an instrument of evaluation. Argues that continuing to treat the dissertation in this way maintains an unequal power hierarchy of "masters" and initiates--it should be seen as the first serious scholarly monograph a scholar produces.

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• Changes at College English

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• POEMS

  Nancy Willard, Jeff Vande Zande, Ed Meek, Fred Marchant

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• REVIEWS: Four Careers in English

  John C. Brereton

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• The Best Defense? Academic Progressives Respond to Critics

  Stanley Corkin and Phyllis Frus

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• COMMENT & RESPONSE: TWO COMMENTS ON “GROUND RULES FOR POLEMICISTS: THE CASE OF LYNNE CHENEY’S TRUTHS”

  Rice, Pinsker/Lazere

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