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  • The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature

    Coming of Age

    Edited by Crag Hill ...
    This examination of the literary effectiveness of young adult literature from a critical, research-oriented perspective answers two key questions asked by many teachers and scholars in the field: Does young adult literature stand up on its own as literature? Is it worthy of close study?The treatment is both conceptual and pragmatic. Each chapter discusses a topical text set of YA novels in a ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Teaching Comics Through Multiple Lenses

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Crag Hill ...
    Building off the argument that comics succeed as literature—rich, complex narratives filled with compelling characters interrogating the thought-provoking issues of our time—this book argues that comics are an expressive medium whose moves (structural and aesthetic) may be shared by literature, the visual arts, and film, but beyond this are a unique art form possessing qualities these other ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Critical Approaches to Teaching the High School Novel

    Reinterpreting Canonical Literature

    Edited by Crag Hill, Victor Malo-Juvera ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This edited collection will turn a critical spotlight on the set of texts that has constituted the high school canon of literature for decades. By employing a set of fresh, vibrant critical lenses—such as youth studies and disabilities studies— that are often unfamiliar to advanced students and scholars of secondary English, this book provides divergent approaches to traditional readings and ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Critical Explorations of Young Adult Literature

    Identifying and Critiquing the Canon

    Edited by Victor Malo-Juvera, Crag Hill ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Recognizing the determination of a canon as an ongoing process of discussion and debate, which helps us to better understand the concept of meaningful and important literature, this edited collection turns a critical spotlight on young adult literature (YAL) to explore some of the most read, taught, and discussed books of our time.By considering the unique criteria which might underpin the ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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  • On the Inconvenience of Other People

    by Lauren Berlant ...
    Series series Writing Matters!
    In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, ... Read more

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  • Hold It Against Me

    Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

    by Jennifer Doyle ...
    In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways in which works of art challenge how we experience not only the artist's feelings, but our own. Discussing performance art, painting, and photography, Doyle provides new perspectives on artists ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Literary Theory

    A Practical Introduction

    Edited by Michael Ryan ...
    Series series How to Study Literature
    Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to thefull range of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture, from formalism, structuralism, and historicism to ethnic, gender, and science studies.Introduces students to a variety of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and cultureDemonstrates how the varying ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Disturbing the Universe

    Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature

    by Roberta S. Trites ...
    The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books. Characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Reading, Thinking, and Writing About History

    Teaching Argument Writing to Diverse Learners in the Common Core Classroom, Grades 6-12

    by Chauncey Monte-Sano, Susan De La Paz, Mark Felton ...
    Series series Common Core State Standards in Literacy Series
    Although the Common Core and C3 Framework highlight literacy and inquiry as central goals for social studies, they do not offer guidelines, assessments, or curriculum resources. This practical guide presents six research-tested historical investigations along with all corresponding teaching materials and tools that have improved the historical thinking and argumentative writing of academically ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Literary Theory

    An Anthology

    Edited by Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan ...
    Series series Blackwell Anthologies
    The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to PostcolonialismExpanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant ... Read more

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  • Media in Education

    Results from the 2011 ICEM and SIIE joint Conference

    Edited by António Moreira, Otto Benavides, Antonio Jose Mendes ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    With the aim of discussing “old” and “new” teaching technologies, based on research and on the strategies and praxis of the use of technologies and methodologies in the different teaching levels, and also embracing the contribution and active participation of researchers, teachers, creators, managers and other specialists, the work will provide inputs on the following topics: Students’ ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD