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The Creating Word

Papers from an International Conference on the Learning and Teaching of English in the 1980s

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  • © 1986

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  1. Patricia Demers
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Patricia Demers
    Pages 1-5

  3. Rhetoric and Rightness: Some Fallacies in a Science of Language

    • Jacques Barzun
    Pages 7-29

  4. Construing and Deconstructing

    • M. H. Abrams
    Pages 30-65

  5. The Literary Transaction

    • Louise M. Rosenblatt
    Pages 66-85

  6. The Teaching of Poetry

    • Robin Skelton
    Pages 86-100

  7. Seizing the Shining Reality: the Novel in the Classroom

    • Norman Page
    Pages 101-115

  8. Teaching the Novel: the Creative Word in Great Expectations

    • Rowland McMaster
    Pages 116-133

  9. Creative Writing: Can It Be Taught?

    • Rudy Wiebe
    Pages 134-145

  10. Writing: Self-Consciousness and a Change in Reality?

    • John Dixon
    Pages 146-157

  11. What Is Language for?: a Functional View of the Language Arts

    • Martha King
    Pages 158-176

  12. Language, Literature and the Computer

    • Keith Smillie
    Pages 177-196

  13. Canadian Literature in the Secondary Curriculum

    • Susan Jackel
    Pages 197-210

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 211-215
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  • Book Title: The Creating Word

  • Book Subtitle: Papers from an International Conference on the Learning and Teaching of English in the 1980s

  • Editors: Patricia Demers

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07954-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-07956-8Published: 01 January 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-07954-4Published: 18 June 1986

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 215

  • Topics: Morphology

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