Teaching Contemporary Theory to Undergraduates: 12 (Options for Teaching) - Tapa dura

"Theory accomplishes something that is both relatively straightforward and supremely important. It enables critics, teachers, and students to illuminate anew the structure of texts, to write literary and cultural history with greater richness and depth, and to understand social and institutional relations more intricately." --William E. Cain, Teaching Contemporary Theory to Undergraduates "The book's greatest strength is in its no-nonsense, this-is-how-I-do-it-in-my-class approach, as told by academics at an impressively broad range of schools: from Kenyon, Wheaton, and St. Mary's College, to the Universities of Michigan, Texas, and Southern Maine. Remarkably free of impenetrable jargon, the essays describe both the ups and downs, the successes and the failures, of many different curricular innovations and pedagogical practices." --James Deutsch, George Washington University

This collection of essays discusses and explores the wide range of literary theory taught to undergraduates today.