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Students Creating CanonsRethinking What (and Who) Constitutes the Canon

Students Creating CanonsRethinking What (and Who) Constitutes the Canon Rather than considering (or dismissing) classroom anthologies according to their author/text selection alone, this article underscores the anthology editorial apparatus as a key, tactical part of anthologies and their pedagogical use. The author outlines a pedagogical approach that asks students to analyze anthology apparatus texts and ultimately create their own, challenging students to consider the implications of constructing an American canon as well as the rhetorical challenge of defining and justifying it. The final part of the article includes example assignments, as well as student responses that show critical engagement with canon re/construction. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy Duke University Press

Students Creating CanonsRethinking What (and Who) Constitutes the Canon

Aull, Laura L.
Pedagogy , Volume 12 (3) – Oct 1, 2012
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Abstract

Rather than considering (or dismissing) classroom anthologies according to their author/text selection alone, this article underscores the anthology editorial apparatus as a key, tactical part of anthologies and their pedagogical use. The author outlines a pedagogical approach that asks students to analyze anthology apparatus texts and ultimately create their own, challenging students to consider the implications of constructing an American canon as well as the rhetorical challenge of defining and justifying it. The final part of the article includes example assignments, as well as student responses that show critical engagement with canon re/construction.

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Pedagogy – Duke University Press

Published: Oct 1, 2012

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    Arac, Jonathan
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    Aull, Laura Louise
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    Bennett, Paula
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    Brown, Joan L.
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    Christian, Shawn Anthony
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    Csicsila, Joseph Thomas
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    Eaton, Mark A.
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    Egan, Jim
  • A Response to Jonathan Arac
    Elmer, Jonathan
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    Hames-Garcia, Michael Roy
  • The End of ‘American’ Literature: Toward a Multicultural Practice
    Jay, Gregory S.
  • The Discipline of the Syllabus
  • National Narratives and the Politics of Inclusion: Historicizing American Literature Anthologies
    Lockard, Joe; Sandell, Jillian
  • Anthologizing Anthologies: Negotiating the Boundaries of Genre and Medium
    Neiderhiser, Justine
  • Literacy and Orality in Our Times
    Ong, Walter J.
  • The Tales Tables (of Contents) Tell
    Roemer, Kenneth
  • What Do We Learn about Difference from the Scholarship on Gender?
    Rosenfeld, Rachel
  • Canonizing the Canonizer: A Short History of the Norton Anthology of English Literature
    Shesgreen, Sean
  • What Good Can Literary History Do?
    Arac, Jonathan
  • Forgotten Genres: The Editorial Apparatus of American Anthologies and Composition Textbooks
    Aull, Laura Louise
  • Canons to the Right of Them
    Bennett, Paula
  • Constructing Our Pedagogical Canons
    Brown, Joan L.
  • ‘We Do Not Teach Literature, We Are Taught by Literature’: Building African American Literature During the New Negro Renaissance
    Christian, Shawn Anthony
  • Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies
    Csicsila, Joseph Thomas
  • The Cultural Capital of Imaginary versus Pedagogical Canons
    Eaton, Mark A.
  • Analyzing the Apparatus: Teaching American Literature Anthologies as Texts
    Egan, Jim
  • A Response to Jonathan Arac
    Elmer, Jonathan
  • Which America Is Ours?: Marti’s ‘Truth’ and the Foundations of ‘American Literature.’
    Hames-Garcia, Michael Roy
  • The End of ‘American’ Literature: Toward a Multicultural Practice
    Jay, Gregory S.
  • The Discipline of the Syllabus
  • National Narratives and the Politics of Inclusion: Historicizing American Literature Anthologies
    Lockard, Joe; Sandell, Jillian
  • Anthologizing Anthologies: Negotiating the Boundaries of Genre and Medium
    Neiderhiser, Justine
  • Literacy and Orality in Our Times
    Ong, Walter J.
  • The Tales Tables (of Contents) Tell
    Roemer, Kenneth
  • What Do We Learn about Difference from the Scholarship on Gender?
    Rosenfeld, Rachel
  • Canonizing the Canonizer: A Short History of the Norton Anthology of English Literature
    Shesgreen, Sean