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This research project investigated the literary reading practices of English pre‐service teachers in a South African university and found that students were practising socially responsive reading in their interpretations of Shakespearean plays. Abstract As university teachers of literature, we tend to accept the rhetoric that students lack the capacity
Naomi Nkealah, Maria Prozesky
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Revolutionary Love: Centering the Full Humanity of Children in the Literacy Curriculum
Abstract This qualitative study explores how teachers implement literacy pedagogies that affirm and engage students despite facing restrictive literacy mandates. We interviewed a focus group of four veteran Revolutionary Loving kindergarten through fifth‐grade teachers from three Title 1 schools in the southeastern United States.
Eliza Braden +4 more
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Abstract The purpose of the following case study was to examine the daybooks of 3 fourth‐grade writers who autonomously determined the content they included across the pages of their composition books. Three themes emerged from an analysis of their daybooks: (1) Students used their daybooks to engage their writing process; (2) students used their ...
Brian Kissel
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Doggerel Verse and Critical Recoil
ABSTRACT Early 20th‐century critics rediscovered a literary concept called “doggerel” in Geoffrey Chaucer's Sir Thopas and in John Lydgate's mid‐clash poetic line, using the term to help them categorize and periodize the shift in English literature from medieval to modern.
Andrea Denny‐Brown
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Abstract This article highlights how mentors in spoken word poetry workshops drew on culturally sustaining pedagogy, modeled their own creativity and vulnerability through their poetry, and amplified the voices of youth poets by encouraging them to explore their identities and grapple with inequities in their own lives.
Jen Scott Curwood
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Abstract Recent scholarship on poetic materiality has found itself caught between celebration of the way rhythm might link language and the body, on the one hand, and critiques of the way such a link can lead and has led to various types of essentialism, on the other.
Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
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ABSTRACT This article deals with the use of language in historiography and with this usage's implications for the conception of history and the historiographical operation/practice. Whereas theorists of “presence” believe that “presence” and “reality” can be grasped in spoken language and written texts, thus generally considering them as a medium that ...
LUIGI ALONZI
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The fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton [PDF]
This chapter follows the fortunes of Arthur as a figure contested and celebrated in equal measure between Malory's Morte Darthur (1485), and Milton's History of Britain (1670).
Maley, Willy, Swann, Adam
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Prototypes and structures in eddic poetry [PDF]
Seiichi Suzuki, The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry: Common Germanic Inheritance and North Germanic Innovation (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Band 86). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014.
Árnason, Kristján
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