College English, Vol. 62, No. 2, November 1999

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• Iago Lives in the Panopticon; or, Teaching Resistance, Granting Respect

  Deborah Klein

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  Abstract: Gives an account in journal format of the author's experiences teaching writing and literature at a missionary school in Nigeria. Describes difficulties and conflicts of beliefs encountered over a period of time with her colleagues. Presents a poem from one of her teaching assistants and discusses reactions and meanings involved in the different cultures.

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• Reading Rape Stories: Material Rhetoric and the Trauma of Representation

  Wendy S. Hesford

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  Abstract: Raises questions about the representability of the trauma of rape and the purposes of its representation. Focuses on how the strategic enactment of a culturally dominant rape script can potentially open up a gap within which that script can be contested and the act of rape or death resisted. Discusses pedagogical challenges of teaching the literature of trauma and survival.

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• From Formalism to Inquiry: A Model of Argument in Antigone

  James L. Kastely

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  Abstract: Presents a definition for a formalist approach to teaching argument and discusses limitations and serious problems with this approach. Discusses "Antigone" as a representative text for teaching argument because it challenges the very possibility of argument. Proposes that literary texts such as "Antigone" be taught as theoretical works in argument.

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• Opinion: Hiding It from the Kids

  Gerald Graff and Andrew Hoberek

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  Abstract: Confronts the problem of applicants for admittance to graduate programs in the Humanities failing to have been told what would be wanted on their applications. Discusses helping students learn to explain their specialties to nonspecialists. Assumes that learning to summarize and "enter the conversations around one" is excellent rhetorical training regardless of the student's profession.

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• REVIEW: How to Tell a True Teaching Story

  Kate Ronald

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• REVIEW: Altruism, Ethics, Spirituality, and Suffering

  Sharon J. Hamilton

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• COMMENT & RESPONSE: A COMMENT ON “RHETORIC AS A COURSE OF STUDY”

  O'Neill et al. / Fleming; Wiener, Eisenberg / Bloom

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