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Teaching Tainted Lit - Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom (Paperback)
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Popular American fiction has now secured a routine position in the
higher education classroom despite its historic status as
culturally suspect. This newfound respect and inclusion have almost
certainly changed the pedagogical landscape, and Teaching Tainted
Lit explores that altered terrain. If the academy has historically
ignored, or even sneered at, the popular, then its new
accommodation within the framework of college English is
noteworthy: surely the popular introduces both pleasures and
problems that did not exist when faculty exclusively taught
literature from anestablished "high" canon. How, then, does the
assumption that the popular matters affect teaching strategies,
classroom climates, and both personal and institutional notions
about what it means to study literature? The essays in this
collection presume that the popular is here to stay and that its
instructive implications are not merely noteworthy,but richly
nuanced and deeply compelling. They address a broad variety of
issues concerning canonicity, literature, genre, and theclassroom,
as its contributors teach everything from Stephen King and Lady
Gaga to nineteenthcentury dime novels and the 1852bestseller Uncle
Tom's Cabin. It is no secret that teaching popular texts fuels
controversies about the value of cultural studies, the alleged
relaxation of aestheticstandards, and the possible "dumbing down"
of Americans. By implicitly and explicitly addressing such
contentious issues, these essays invite a broader conversation
about the place of thepopular not only in higher education but in
the reading lives of all Americans.
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