Reading, Learning, Teaching Barbara Kingsolver: 1 (Confronting the Text, Confronting the World)

Thomas, P. L.

ISBN 10: 0820479233 / ISBN 13: 9780820479231

Published by Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2005

About this Item

Series: Confronting the Text, Confronting the World. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JNA; JNMT; JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 9. Weight in Grams: 236. . 2005. New. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9780820479231

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading, Learning, Teaching Barbara Kingsolver: 1 (Confronting the Text, Confronting the World)
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820479233
• ISBN 13: 9780820479231
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Our English classrooms are often only as vibrant as the literature that we teach. This book explores the writing of contemporary American author, Barbara Kingsolver, who offers readers and students engaging fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that confront the reader and the world. Here, teachers will find an introduction to the works of Kingsolver and an opportunity to explore how to bring those works into the classroom as a part of the reading and writing curriculum. This volume attempts to confront what we teach and how we teach as English teachers through the vivid texts Kingsolver offers her readers.

About the Author

The Author: P. L. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Education at Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina), taught English for eighteen years before entering higher education. He holds an Ed.D. from the University of South Carolina and is the author of Numbers Games (Peter Lang, 2004) and Teaching Writing Primer (Peter Lang, 2005).