This textbook, intended for secondary English methods courses, introduces students to the theory and practice of reader response. It is based on the transactional model of literature asserted by Louise M. Rosenblatt. Soundly expressive of each aspect of response-centered critical theory, it is pedagogically the most meaningful for teachers. As detailed within this text, her approach insists on the reader's role in conjunction with the text, the reader's individuality affecting and being affected by the text. In contrast, other theoretical positions give prominence to the reader or to the text. However, this volume is not specifically concerned with close scrutiny of these variations and emphases. Rather, it focuses on the application of the transactional theory of literature, activating it in the classroom, and expressing theory as background.

Reader Response in the Classroom: Evoking and interpreting Meaning in Literature

Reference

Karolides, Nicholas J.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

New in Paperback! This collection of sixty-three essays provides assistance to the growing number of students, teachers, librarians, and parents who find themselves confronting a censorship situation. The contributors are both authors_of fiction, drama, and poetry for adults, children, and adolescents_and teachers of literature, writing about the books that are most frequently challenged in schools and libraries. Part I provides six authors' perspectives on censorship by omission and commission. Part II provides responses and defenses of individual books. Paperback edition available May 2001.

Censored Books

Literature & Fiction

Burress, Lee

Kean, John M.

United States

Scarecrow Press

New in Paperback! This collection of sixty-three essays provides assistance to the growing number of students, teachers, librarians, and parents who find themselves confronting a censorship situation. The contributors are both authors―of fiction, drama, and poetry for adults, children, and adolescents―and teachers of literature, writing about the books that are most frequently challenged in schools and libraries. Part I provides six authors' perspectives on censorship by omission and commission. Part II provides responses and defenses of individual books. Paperback edition available May 2001.

Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints

Essays & Correspondence

Here is a whole new set of rationales to be used in defending challenged books. Beautifully reasoned arguments support the teaching of books that are frequently challenged by would-be censors. Karolides has chosen a wide range of literature, from Faulkner's As I Lay Dying to the contemporary bestselling Harry Potter books. Some books are challenged in the name of political correctness; others because of concern over violent or sexual content. The rationale, some written by the authors themselves, examine the value of each work as literature, its content relative to societal values, and the always thorny issue of what material actually constitutes "suitable" reading for young people. For librarians, teachers, and parents―and anyone concerned with intellectual freedom.

Censored Books II: Critical Viewpoints, 1985-2000

The one volume abridgement of the Banned book series highlights books banned for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons

100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature

SOVA, Dawn B.

Bald, Margaret

History & Criticism

Checkmark Books

This book covers the history and evolution of censorship and its role in society today. Covering all forms of expression from the past to the present, from the office of the censor in ancient Rome to the Internet in the computer age, this A-Z reference examines censorship.

Encyclopedia Of Censorship

History

GREEN, Jonathon

World

FACTS ON FILE+

Presents summary and censorship accounts of books that have been banned throughout history for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons.

120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature

Examines the history and issues surrounding the censorship of works banned for their political content, including "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, "The Man Died" by Wole Soyinka, and "The Politics of Dispossession" by Edward Said.

Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds (Banned Books)

Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities. Political suppression also occurs in the name of security and the safeguarding of official secrets and is often used as a weapon in larger cultural or political battles. Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds, Third Edition illustrates the extent and frequency of such censorship in nearly every form of writing.

Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds, Third Edition (Banned Books)

From Gossip Girl to The Kite Runner a completely updated look at the history of censorship in world literature. Praise for the previous editions: "A must-have for all of us who enjoy the right to choose what we read." Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties Union Throughout history, nations, peoples, and governments have censored writers and their works on political, religious, sexual, and social grounds. Although the literary merit of the majority of these books has been proven time and time again, censorship efforts are still in place today. From Animal Farm to The Grapes of Wrath, The Koran to The Talmud, Ulysses to the Harry Potter series, The Canterbury Tales to The Bell Jar, this revised edition examines the many struggles these books faced in order to be read. Tracing the censorship histories of 120 works from across the world, 120 Banned Books, Second Edition provides a summary of each work, its censorship history, and suggestions for further reading. Many new titles have been added to reflect some of the controversies in recent years, and updates have been made to existing entries on such classic books as Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird. New entries include: -The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie (banned on social grounds) -The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (banned on religious grounds) -Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea (banned on political grounds) -Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar (banned on sexual grounds) -His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (banned on religious grounds) -The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (banned on social grounds) -and many more.

120 Banned Books, Second Edition

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