"Margins in the Classroom " was first published in 1994.
Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make
long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published
unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press
editions.
For today's teacher of literature, facing a minefield of
politics and theory, this book arrives as a much needed guide
through the multiplying cultural anxieties of the college
classroom. Margins in the Classroom brings together established
scholars and emerging voices from diverse backgrounds to show how
politics and theory can and do affect the most pressing problems
confronting the contemporary teacher of literature. The essays in
this volume go beyond questioning and examining existing practices
to suggest fresh approaches to teaching the expanding literary
canon within the context of the politics of the educational
institution. Grounded in literary criticism, psychoanalysis,
feminist theory, political economy, sociology, and philosophy,
these essays apply new theoretical models to the traditional canon,
identify new bodies of literature, and show how theory can be used
to analyze these new literatures. Focusing on the politics of
teaching and theory in the classroom, the authors explore the
present practice and future implications of changing textual
analysis, literary theory, and pedagogy. Their essays address the
politics of literature as it affects the classroom, the design of
courses, and the creation of new courses. They mold theory to the
variety of classroom populations and materials the teacher of
literature encounters today. The resulting volume bridges the
differences between the languages of the classroom instructor and
the contemporary theorist. Margins in the Classroom is unique in
both the breadth and the depth of its concern over the disturbing,
if electric, impact of changes in criticism, theory, and pedagogy
in college literature classes as we approach the next century of
academic instruction.
Kostas Myrsiades is professor of comparative literature, and
Linda S. Myrsiades is professor of English, both at West Chester
University. Kostas Myrsiades is editor of College Literature, where
Linda S. Myrsiades is an associate editor.
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