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CHAPTERS

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Goals for teaching literature: What does it mean to teach literature?

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Understanding students’ individual differences: Who are our kids?

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Planning and Organizing Literature Instruction: How Do I Decide What to Teach?

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Using Drama to Foster Interpretation: How Can I Help Students Read Better?

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Leading Classroom Discussions of Literature: How Do I Get Them to Talk about Literature?

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Writing about literature: How do I get them to write about literature?

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Using narratives in the classroom: What’s the use of story?

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Teaching text and task-specific strategies: How does the shape of a text change the shape of my teaching?

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Teaching the Classics: Do I Have To Teach the Canon, And If So, How Do I Do It?

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Multiple Perspectives to Engage Students with Literature: What are Different Ways of Seeing?

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Teaching Media Literacy: What else is a text and how do I teach it?

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Assessing and Evaluating Students’ Learning: How do I know what they’ve learned?

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Text Selection, Censorship, Creating an Ethical Classroom Environment. and Teacher Professionalism: How do I Stay in Control, Out of Trouble, and Continue to Develop as A Teacher?

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Further Reading: Different Literary Critical Lenses

General Introductions to Literary Criticism

Appleman, D. (2000). Critical encounters in high school English: Teaching literary theory to adolescents. New York: Teachers College Press.

Barry, P. (2002). Beginning theory: An introduction to literary and cultural theory. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

Bennett, A., & Royle, N. (2004). An introduction to literature, criticism and theory. New York: Longman.

Bertens, H. (2004). Literary theory: The basics. New York: Routledge.

Bissell, E. B. (Ed.). (2003). The question of literature: The place on the literary in contemporary theory. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

Bonnycastle, S. (Ed.). (1996). In search of authority: An introductory guide to literary theory (2nd ed.). Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press.

Carpenter, S. (2000). Reading lessons: An introduction to theory. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Castle, G. (2006). The Blackwell guide to literary theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Childers, J., & Hentzi, G. (Eds.). (1995). The Columbia dictionary of modern literary and cultural criticism. New York: Columbia University Press.

Culler, J. (2000). Literary theory: A very short introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.

Eagleton, T. (1996). Literary theory: An introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Elliott, M. A. (2002). American literary studies: A methodological reader. New York: New York University Press.

Gayley, C. M., & Scott, F. N. (2005). Introduction to the methods and materials of literary criticism. New York: Kessinger.

Groden, M., Kreiswirth, M., & Szeman, I. (2004). The johns hopkins guide to literary theory and criticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Guerin, W. L., Labor, E., Morgan, L., Reesman, J. C., Willingham, J. R., & Willingham, J. (2005). A handbook of critical approaches to literature. New York: Oxford University Press.

Guerin, W. L., Labor, E., Morgan, L., Reesman, J. C., Willingham, J. R., & Willingham, J. (2006). A handbook of critical approaches to literature. New York: Oxford University Press.

Habib, M. A. R. (2005). History of literary criticism: From Plato to the present. Malden, MA: Blackwellw.

Hawthorn, J. (2005). A concise glossary of contemporary literary theory. London: Hodder Arnold Publication.

Hoffman, M. J., & Murphy, P. D. (Eds.). (2005). Essentials of the theory of fiction (3rd ed.). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Hogan, P. C. (1990). The politics of interpretation: Ideology, professionalism, and the study of literature. New York: Oxford University Press.

Iser, W. (2005). How to do theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Keesey, D. (2002). Contexts for criticism. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Kennedy, X. J., Dana Gioia, & Bauerlein, M. (2004). Handbook of literary terms: Literature, language, theory. New York: Longman.

Klarer, M. (2004). An introduction to literary studies. New York: Routledge.

Kouritzin, S. G. (2004). The British Columbia literature 12 curriculum and I: A soliloquy. Curriculum Inquiry, 34(2), 185-212

Leitch, V. B. (Ed.). (2001). The norton anthology of theory and criticism. New York: W. W. Norton.

Lentricchia, F., & Dubois, A. (Eds.). (2003). Close reading: The reader. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Lentricchia, F., & McLaughlin, T. (Eds.). (1995). Critical terms for literary study. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lynn, S. (1998). Texts and contexts: Writing about literature with critical theory (2nd ed.). New York: Longman.

Nealon, J. (2004). Literary theory toolbox: An introduction to theory in practice. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Pulitano, E. (2003). Toward a native American critical theory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Rice, P., & Waugh, P. (2001). Modern literary theory: A reader. London: Arnold.

Richter, D. H. (1999). Falling into theory: Conflicting views on reading literature. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Rivkin, J., & Ryan, M. (Eds.). (2004). Literary theory: An anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Schilb, J., & Clifford, J. (2004). Making arguments about literature: A compact guide and anthology. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's

Scholes, R. (1999). The rise and fall of English: Reconstructing English as a discipline. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Selden, R. (1989). Practicing theory and reading literature: An introduction. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Selden, R., Widdowson, P., & Brooker, P. (1997). A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory. New York: Prentice Hall.

Selden, R., Widdowson, P., & Brooker, P. (2005). A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory. New York: Longman.

Spikes, M. P. (2003). Understanding contemporary American literary theory. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.

Tyson, L. (2001). Learning for a diverse world: Using critical theory to read and write about literature. New York: Routledge.

Waugh, P. (2006). Modern literary theory and criticism: An oxford guide. New York: Oxford University Press.

Waugh, P. (Ed.). (2006). Literary theory and criticism. New York: Oxford University Press.

Winchester, C. T. (2005). Some principles of literary criticism. New York: Kessinger.

Wolfreys, J. (2004). Critical keywords in literary and cultural theory. New York: Palgrave.

Glossaries of Literary Terms and Critical Concepts

Abrams, M. H. (1999). A glossary of literary terms (6th ed.). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Andrews, W. L., Foster, F. S., & Harris, T. (Eds.). (1997). The Oxford companion to African American literature. New York: Oxford University Press.

Baldick, C. (1990). Concise Oxford dictionary of literary terms. New York.

Childers, J., & Hentzi, G. (Eds.). (1995). The Columbia dictionary of modern literary and cultural criticism. New York.

Cuddon, J. A. (Ed.). (1991). Dictionary of literary terms and literary theory (3rd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell.

Dupriez, B. (1991). Dictionary of literary devices: Gradus A-Z. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Fowler, R. (Ed.). (1990). A dictionary of modern critical terms (Vol. Routledge & K. Paul). New York.

Harris, W. V. (1992). Dictionary of concepts in literary criticism and theory. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Hawthorn, J. (2000). A glossary of contemporary literary theory. New York: Oxford University Press.

Holmon, C. H., & Harmon, W. (1996). A handbook to literature. New York: Macmillan.

Kennedy, J., Gioia, D., & Bauerlein, M. (2005). The Longman dictionary of literary terms: Vocabulary for the informed reader. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis.

Lentriccia, F., & McLaughlin, T. (1990). Critical terms for literary study. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Murfin, R., & Ray, S. M. (2003). The bedford glossary of critical and literary terms. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.

Payne, M. (Ed.). (1996). A dictionary of cultural and critical theory. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Reference.

Schellinger, P. F. (Ed.). (1998). Encyclopedia of the novel. Chicago: Dearborn.

Serafin, S. R. (Ed.). (2000). The continuum encyclopedia of American literature. New York: Continuum.

Sim, S. (1998). The Icon critical dictionary of postmodern thought. Cambridge, UK: Icon Books.

Wiget, A. (1996). Handbook of Native American literature. New York: Garland.

Wolfreys, J., Robbins, R., & Womack, K. (2006). Key concepts in literary theory. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.

Wolfreys, J., Ruth Robbins, & Womack, K. (2006). Key concepts in literary theory. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.

Archetypal Criticism

Campbell, J. (1991). Power of myth. New York: Anchor.

Campbell, J. (1997). The mythic dimension: Selected essays 1959-1987. San Francisco: Harper.

Campbell, J. (2004). Pathways to bliss: Mythology and personal transformation. New York: New World Library.

Caughey, S. (Ed.). (2005). Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, myth and religion in C. S. Lewis' chronicles. New York: Benbella Books.

Csapo, E. (2005). Theories of mythology. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Dundes, A. (Ed.). (1984). Sacred narrative: Readings in the theory of myth. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ferrell, W. K. (2000). Literature and film as modern mythology. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Frye, N. (1963). Fables of identity studies in poetic mythology. San Diego, CA: Harvest.

Frye, N. (2000). Anatomy of criticism: Four essays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Frye, N. (2004). The secular scripture: A study of the structure of romance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Frye, N. (2005). Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Heilman, E. E. (Ed.). (2003). Harry Potter's world: Multidisciplinary critical perspectives. Philadelphia: Falmer Press.

Hirschman, E. (2000). Heroes, monsters, and messiahs. New York: McMeel.

Isaacs, N. D., & Zimbardo, R. A. (Eds.). (2005). Understanding The lord of the rings: The best of Tolkien criticism. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Leeming, D. (2005). The Oxford companion to world mythology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Leonard, S. A., & McClure, M. (2003). Myth and knowing: An introduction to world mythology. New York: McGraw Hill.

Liebes, T., Curran, J., & Katz, E. (Eds.). (2002). Media, ritual and identity. New York: Routledge.

Powers, M. A. (2000). The heroine in western literature: The archetype and her reemergence in modern prose. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Pratt, A. (1981). Archetypal patterns in women's fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Rasmussen, R. (1998). Children of the night: The six archetypal characters of classic horror films. New York: MacFarland.

Vickers, S. B. (1998). Native American identities: From stereotype to archetype in art and literature. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Critical Race Theory/Whiteness Studies

Alexander, C. M. S., & Wells, S. (Eds.). (2000). Shakespeare and race. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Awkward, M. (1995). Negotiating difference: Race, gender, and the politics of positionality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Barnett, T. (2000). Reading “whiteness” in English studies. College English, 63(1), 9-37.

Beach, R. (1997). Students’ resistance to engagement with multicultural literature. In T. Rogers & A. O. Soter (Eds.), Reading across cultures: Teaching literature in a diverse society (pp. 69-94). New York: Teachers College Press.

Blake, B. E. (1998). “critical” reader response in an urban classroom: Creating cultural texts to engage diverse readers. Theory Into Practice, 37(3), 238-243.

Bona, M. J., & Maini, I. (Eds.). (2006). Multiethnic literature and canon debates. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Brooks, W. (2006). Reading representations of themselves: Urban youth use culture and African American textual features to develop literary understandings. Reading Research Quarterly, 41(3), 372–392.

Cai, M. (2002). Multicultural literature for children and young adults: Reflections on critical issues. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Christensen, L. (2000). Reading, writing, and rising up: Teaching about social justice and the power of the written word. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools.

Connor, J. J. "The textbooks never said anything about . . . " Adolescents respond to "The middle passage: White ships/black cargo". Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 47(3), 240-246

Cuomo, C., & Hall, K. (Eds.). (1999). Whiteness: Critical philosophical reflections. Latham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Delgado, R., & Stefancic, J. (Eds.). (1997). Critical white studies: Looking beyond the mirror. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Delgado, R., & Stefancic, J. (1999). Critical race theory: The cutting edge. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Delgado, R., & Stefancic, J. (2001). Critical race theory: An introduction. New York: New York University Press.

Edelsky, C. (Ed.). (1999). Making justice our project: Teachers working toward critical whole language practice. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Fecho, B. (1998). Crossing boundaries of race in a critical literacy classroom. In D. Alvermann, K. Hinchman, D. Moore, S. Phelps, & D. Waff (Eds.), Reconceptualizing the literacies in adolescents’ lives (pp. 75-101). Mahwah. NJ:: Erlbaum.

Fine, M., Weis, L., Powell, L., & Wong, L. (Eds.). (1997). New York: Routledge.

Gates, H. L. (1989). The signifying monkey: A theory of African-American literary criticism. New York: Oxford University Press.

Glazier, J., & Seo, J. A. (2005). Multicultural literature and discussion as mirror and window. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 48, 686-700.

Goldberg, D. T., & Essed, P. (Eds.). (2001). Race critical theories: Text and context. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Graham, M., Pineault-Burke, S., & Davis, M. W. (Eds.). (1998). Teaching African American literature: Theory and practice. New York: Routledge.

Kim, D. Y. (2005). Writing manhood in black and yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the literary politics of identity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Lester, J. (1992). Morality and the adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In J. S. Leonard, T. A. Tenney, & T. M. Davis (Eds.), Satire or evasion? Black perspectives on Huckleberry Finn (pp. 199-207). Durham. NC: Duke University Press.

Menkart, D. (2002). Beyond heroes and holidays: A practical guide to K-12 anti-racist, multicultural education and staff development. Washington, DC: Teaching for Change.

Morrison, T. (1993). Playing in the dark: Whiteness and the literary imagination. New York: Vintage Books.

Murphet, J. (2001). Literature and race in Los Angeles. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Napier, W. (2000). African American literary theory: A reader. New York: New York University Press.

Nguyen, V. T. (2002). Race and resistance: Literature and politics in Asian America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nielsen, A. L. (Ed.). (2000). Reading race in American poetry: An area of act. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Quintana, A. E. (2003). Reading U.S. Latina writers: Remapping American literature. New York: Palgrave.

Roediger, D. R. (2002). Colored white: Transcending the racial past. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Rogers, T., & Soter, A. (1997). Reading across cultures: Teaching literature in a diverse society. New York: Teachers College Press.

Sapna, V. (2004). Exploring bicultural identities of Asian high school students through the analytic window of a literature club. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 48(1), 12-23.

Sleeter, C. E., & Grant, C. A. (2006). Making choices for multicultural education: Five approaches to race, class, and gender. New York: John Wiley.

Stallworth, B., Gibbons, L., & Fauber, L. (2006). It's not on the list: An exploration of teachers' perspectives on using multicultural literature. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 49(6), 478–489.

Sutherland, L. M. (2005). Black adolescent girls’ use of literacy practices to negotiate boundaries of ascribed identity. Journal of Literacy Research, 37(3), 365-406.

Thomas, L. (1998). Sing the sun up: Creative writing ideas from African American literature. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative.

Trainor, J. (2002). Critical pedagogy’s “other”: Constructions of whiteness in education for social change. College Composition and Communication, 53(4), 631-650.

Vyas, S. (2004). Exploring bicultural identities of Asian high school students through the analytic window of a literature club. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 48(1), 12-23.

Yon, D. A. (2000). Elusive culture: Schooling, race, and identity in global time. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Dialogic/Genre Analysis

Altman, R. (1999). Film/genre. London: British Film Institute.

Bakhtin, M. M. (Ed.). (1982). The dialogic imagination: Four essays. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Burke, K. (1969). A rhetoric of motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Burke, K. (1969). A grammar of motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Burke, K. (1974). The philosophy of literary form: Studies in symbolic action. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Burke, K. (1978). Language as symbolic action: Essays on life, literature and method. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Dowd, G., Stevenson, L., & Strong, J. (Eds.). (2006). Genre matters: Essays in theory and criticism. London: Intellect.

Holquist, M. (2002). Dialogism. New York: Routledge.

Morson, G. S., & Emerson, C. (1991). Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a prosaics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Rybacki, K., & Rybacki, D. (1990). Communication criticism: Approaches and genres. New York: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Vice, S. (1998). Introducing Bakhtin. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

Weaver, J. A., Daspit, T., & Anijar, K. (Eds.). (2003). Science fiction curriculum, cyborg teachers, and youth cultures. New York: Peter Lang.

Eco-Criticism/Place-based Pedagogy

Barillas, W. (2006). The midwestern pastoral: Place and landscape in literature of the American heartland. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Brooke, R. E. (Ed.). (2003). Rural voices: Place-conscious education and the teaching of writing. New York: Teachers College Press.

Buell, L. (2001). Writing for an endangered world: Literature, culture, and the environment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Buell, L. (2005). Future of environmental criticism: Environmental crisis and literary imagination. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Callejo Perez, D. M., Fain, S. M., & Slater, J. J. (2004). Pedagogy of place: Seeing space as cultural educatio. New York: Peter Lang.

Crang, M., & Thrift, N. (Eds.). (2000). Thinking space. New York: Routledge.

Cresswell, T. (2004). Place: A short introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Cross, J. (2001). What is "Sense of place"? Retrieved December 20, 2005, from http://www.western.edu/headwtrs/Archives/headwaters12_papers/cross_paper.html

Davis, M. (1999). Ecology of fear: Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster. New York: Vintage.

Edmondson, J. (2003). Prairie town: Redefining rural life in the age of globalization. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield.

Ellsworth, E. (2004). Places of learning: Media, architecture, pedagogy. New York: Routledge.

Fetterley, J., & Pryse, M. (2002). Writing out of place: Regionalism, women and American literary culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Fleming, D. (2004). Subjects of the inner city: Writing the people of Cabrini-Green. In M. Nystrand & J. Duffy (Eds.), Towards a rhetoric of everyday life: New directions in research on writing, text, and discourse (pp. 207-244). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Garrard, G. (2004). Ecocriticism. New York: Routledge.

Giroux, H. (2002). Public spaces, private lives: Democracy beyond 9/11/. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield.

Gourdine, A. (2002). The difference place makes: Gender, sexuality, and diaspora identity. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Gruenewald, D. A. (2002). Teaching and learning with Thoreau. Harvard Educational Review, 72(4), 515-541.

Gruenewald, D. A. (2003). The best of both worlds: A critical pedagogy of place. Educational Researcher, 32(4), 3-12.

Love, G. A. (2003). Practical ecocriticism: Literature, biology, and the environment. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

Lutz, T. (2004). Cosmopolitan vistas: American regionalism and literary value. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

McComiskey, B., & Ryan, C. (Eds.). (2003). City comp: Identities, spaces, practices. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Nagelhout, E., & Rutz, C. (Eds.). (2004). Classroom spaces and writing instruction. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.

Phillips, D. (2003). The truth of ecology: Nature, culture, and literature in America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Reaves, G. (2001). Mapping the private geography: Autobiography, identity, and America.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Ronald, A. (2003). Reader of the purple sage: Essays on western writers and environmental literature. Reno: University of Nevada Press.

Rosendale, S. (Ed.). (2002). The greening off literary scholarship: Literature, theory, and the environment. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Savoy, A., & Lauret, E. (Eds.). (2002). The colors of nature: Culture, identity, and the natural world. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions.

Scollon, R., & Scollon, S. (2003). Discourses in place: Language in the material world. New York: Routledge.

Soja, E. (1997). Postmodern geographies: The reassertion of space in critical social theory. New York: Verso.

Ward, G. (2001). The writing of America: Literature and cultural identity from the Puritans to the present. Malden, MA: Polity Press.

Winchell, M. R. (2006). Reinventing the south: Versions of a literary region. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Feminist/Gender Criticism

Bennett, B. (2005). Through ecofeminist eyes: Le Guin's "The ones who walk away from Omelas. English Journal, 94(6), 63-68.

Bettis, P., & Adams, N. (2005). Geographies of girlhood: Identities in-between: Inquiry and pedagogy across diverse contexts. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Bloomberg, K. M. M. (2001). Tracing Arachne’s web: Myth and feminist fiction. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Bucholtz, M., Liang, A. C., & Sutton, L. (Eds.). (1999). Reinventing identities: The gendered self in discourse. New York: Oxford University Press.

Budgeon, S. (2003). Choosing a self: Young women and the individualization of identity. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Butler, J. (1999). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.

Butler, J. (2004). Undoing gender. New York: Routledge.

Butler, J. (2005). Giving an account of oneself. New York: Fordham University Press.

Chase, S. E., & Rogers., M. F. (2001). Mothers and children: Feminist analyses and personal narratives. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Chedgzoy, K. (Ed.). (2001). Shakespeare, feminism, and gender. New York: Palgrave.

Coates, J. (2003). Men talk: Stories in the making of masculinities. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Connell, R. W. (1995). Masculinities. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Connell, R. W. (2001). The men and the boys. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Currie, D. (1999). Girl talk: Adolescent magazines and their readers. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Davies, B. (2000). A body of writing 1990–1999. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira.

Evans, K. (2002). Negotiating the self: Identity, sexuality, and emotion in learning to teach. New York: Routledge.

Fetterley, J. (1979). The resisting reader: A feminist approach to American fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Finders, M. (1997). Just girls. New York: Teachers College Press.

Findlen, B. (Ed.). (2001). Listen up: Voices from the next feminist generation. Seattle, WA: Seal Press.

Green, L. M. (2001). Educating women: Cultural conflict and Victorian literature. Athens: Ohio University Press.

Grobman, L. (2001). Teaching at the crossroads: Cultures and critical perspectives in literature by women of color. San Francisco: Aunt Luter Books.

Hills, E. (2000). What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?: Gender, genre, and action heroine. New York: Peter Lang.

hooks, b. (1989). Talking back: Thinking feminist, thinking black. Boston: South End Press.

James, J., & Sharply-Whiting, T. D. (Eds.). (2000). The black feminist reader. Williston, VT: Blackwell.

Madsen, D. L. (2000). Feminist theory and literary practice. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press.

Montefiore, J. (2002). Feminism and poetry: Language, experience and identity in women’s writing. London: Pandora.

Newkirk, T. (2002). Misreading masculinity: Boys, literacy, and popular culture. Portsmouth, NH:: Heinemann.

Ogden, D. (2005). The language of the eyes: Science, sexuality, and female vision in English literature and culture, 1690-1927. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Pearce, L. (2003). The rhetorics of feminism; readings in contemporary cultural theory and the popular press. New York: Routledge.

Pernal, M. (2001). Explorations in contemporary feminist literature: The battle against oppression for writers of color, lesbian, and transgender communities. New York: Peter Lang.

Radway, J. (2002). Girls, reading, and narrative gleaning. In M. Green, J. Strange, & T. Brock (Eds.), Narrative impact: Social and cognitive foundations (pp. 183-204). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Robbins, R. (2000). Literary feminisms. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Rooney, E. (Ed.). (2006). The cambridge companion to feminist literary theory. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Rowan, L., Knobel, M., Bigum, C., & Lankshear, C. (2002). Boys, literacies and schooling: The dangerous territories of gender-based literacy reform. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.

Ruthven, K. K. (1984). Feminist literary studies: An introduction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Sanford, K. (2005/06). Gendered literacy experiences: The effects of expectation and opportunity for boys and girls’ learning. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 49(4), 302-315.

Showalter, E. (Ed.). (1989). Speaking of gender. New York: Routledge.

Smith, M. W., & Wilhelm, J. D. (2002). "Reading don't fix no Chevy's”: Literacy in the lives of young men. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Sparrow, S. (Ed.). (1998). No more dragons: Feminist fables, folktales, and fantasies. Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Quarry Press.

Stimpson, C. (1989). Where the meanings are: Feminism and cultural spaces. New York: Routledge.

Styslinger, M. E. (2004). Chasing the albatross: Gendering theory and reading with dual-voiced journals. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 47(8), 628-637.

Travis, J. (2006). Wounded hearts: Masculinity, law, and literature in American culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Wallowitz, L. (2004). Reading as resistance: Gendered messages in literature and media. English Journal, 93(4), 26-31

Watkins, S. (2001). Twentieth-century women’s novelists: Feminist theory into practice. New York: Palgrave.

Way, N., & Chu, J. Y. (Eds.). (2004). Adolescent boys: Exploring diverse cultures of boyhood. New York: New York University Press.

Woodward, K. (2004). Questioning identity: Gender, class, ethnicity. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis.

Young, J. P. Displaying practices of masculinity: Critical literacy and social contexts. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 45(1), 4-14.

Hypertext/New Media Literature Theory

Aragay, M. (Ed.). (2006). Books in motion: Adaptation, intertextuality, authorship. New York: Rodopi.

DeWitt, S. L., & Strasma, K. (Eds.). (1999). Contexts, intertexts and hypertexts. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Handa, C. (2004). Visual rhetoric in a digital world: A critical sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.

Hayles, N. K. (2005). My mother was a computer: Digital subjects and literary texts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Helmers, M. (2005). The elements of visual analysis. . New York: Longman.

Hill, C. A., & Helmers, M. (Eds.). (2004). Defining visual rhetorics. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Hocks, M. E., & Kendrick, M. R. (Eds.). (2003). Eloquent images: Word and image in the age of new media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hocks, M. R. (2003). Understanding visual rhetoric. College Composition and Communicaiton, 54(4), 629-656.

Knobel, M. (2002). Cut, paste, publish: The production and consumption of zines. In D. E. Alvermann (Ed.), Adolescents and literacies in a digital world (pp. 164-185). New York: Peter Lang.

Kress, G. (2003). Literacy in the new media age. New York: Routledge.

Landow, G. P. (2006). Hypertext 3.0: Critical theory and new media in an era of globalization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Luce-Kapler, R., & Dobson, T. (2005, May). In search of a story: Reading and writing e-literature. Reading Online, 1-13.

Meadows, M. S. (2002). Pause & effect: The art of interactive narrative. Indianapolis, IN: New Riders.

Morris, A., & Swiss, T. (2006). New media poetics: Contexts, technotexts, and theorie. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Rice, J. (2004). Writing about cool: Hypertext and cultural studies in the computer classroom. New York: Pearson/Longman (Text website: http://www.ablongman.com/ricecool1e/index.html).

Samuels, R. (2005). Integrating hypertexual subjects. Cresskill, NJ:: Hampton Press.

Snyder, I. (1997). Hypertext. The electronic labyrinth. New York: New York University Press.

Wardrip-Fruin, N., & Herrigan, P. (Eds.). (2004). First person: New media as story, peformance, and game. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Wardrip-Fruin, N., & Montfort, N. (Eds.). (2003). The new media reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Watten, B. (2003). The constructivist moment: From material text to cultural poetics. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Marxist Criticism/Issues of Class

Althusser, L. (2001). Lenin and philosophy and other essays. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Althusser, L. (2006). For Marx. London: Verso.

Christopher, R. (1999). Teaching working-class literature to mixed audiences. In S. L. Linkon (Ed.), Teaching working class (pp. 203-222). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Coles, N., & Zandy, J. (Eds.). (2006). American working-class literature: An anthology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Eagleton, T. (2006). Criticism and ideology: A study in marxist literary theory, new edition. London: Verso.

Easton, T., & Lutzenberger, J. (1999). Difficult dialogues: Working-class studies in a multicultural literature classroom. In S. L. Linkon (Ed.), Teaching working class (pp. 267-285). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Gibson-Graham, J. K., Resnick, S., & Wolff, R. D. (Eds.). (2000). Class and its others. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Gramsci, A. (1971). Selections from the prison notebooks. New York: International Publishers.

Guillory, J. (1995). Cultural capital: The problem of literary canon formation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hamilton, A., & Horowitz, H. L. (2004). A vision for girls: Gender, education, and The Bryn Mawr School. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Haslett, M. (2000). Marxist literary and cultural theories. New York: Palgrave.

Hemphill, L. (1999). Narrative style, social class, and response to poetry. Research in the Teaching of English, 33(3), 275-302.

Hicks, D. (2001). Literacies and masculinities in the life of a young working-class boy. Language Arts, 78(3), 217-226.

Hicks, D. (2002). Reading lives: Working-class children and literacy learning. New York: Teachers College Press.

Hicks, D. (2005). Cultural hauntings: Girlhood fictions from working-poor America. Qualitative Inquiry, 11(2), 170-190.

Hull, G., & Rose, M. (1990). This wooden shack place: The logic of an unconventional reading. College Composition and Communication, 41, 287-298.

Jones, S. (2006). Girls, social class, and literacy: What teachers can

do to make a difference. Portsmouth: Heinemann.

Kucich, J. (2006). Imperial masochism: British fiction, fantasy, and social class. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Lareau, A. (2003). Unequal childhoods: Class, race, and family life. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lenhart, G. (2005). The stamp of class: Reflections on poetry and social class. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Linkon, S. L., Peckham, I., & Lanier-Nabors, B. G. (2004). Struggling with class in English studies. College English, 67(2), 149-152.

Lukács, G. (1972). History and class consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Markels, J. (2003). The Marxian imagination: Representing class in literature. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Milne, D. (2006). Reading marxist literary theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Schocket, E. (2006). Vanishing moments: Class and American literature. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Williams, R. (1978). Marxism and literature. New York: Oxford University Press.

Narrative Analysis (see also Chapter 7)

Abbott, H. P. (2002). The Cambridge introduction to narrative. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Bromley, R. (2000). ()..:.Narratives for a new belonging: Diasporic culture fictions. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.

Bruner, J. (1986). Actual minds: Possible worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bruner, J. (2002). Making stories: Law, literature, life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Groux.

Cobley, P. (2001). Narrative. New York: Routledge.

Collins, P. (2003). Storying self and others: The construction of narrative identity. Journal of Language and Politics,, 2(2), 243–264.

Dauite, C., & Lightfoot, C. (Eds.). (2004). Narrative analysis: Studying the development of individuals in society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

DeBlase, G. L. (2003). Missing stories, missing lives: Urban girls (re)constructing race and gender in the literacy classroom. Urban Education, 38(3), 279-329.

Eakin, P. J. (1999). How our lives become stories: Making selves. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Gates, H. L. (Ed.). (2002). The classic slave narratives. New York: Signet.

Hawkes, T. (2005). Theories of narrative. New York: Routledge.

Keen, S. (2004). Narrative form. New York: Palgrave.

Keizer, A. R. (2004). Black subjects: Identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

McCallum, R. (1999). Ideologies of identity in adolescent fiction: The dialogic construction of subjectivity. New York: Garland.

Mellor, B., O’Neill, M., & Patterson, A. (2000). Reading stories: Activities and texts for critical readings. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Moses, C. (2000). Dissenting fictions: Identity and resistance in the contemporary American novel. New York: Garland.

Patterson, W. (Ed.). (2002). Strategic narrative: New perspectives on the power of personal and cultural stories. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Phelan, J. (2004). Living to tell about it: A rhetoric and ethics of character narration. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Phelan, J., & Rabinowitz, P. (2005). A companion to narrative theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Phillion, J. (2002). Narrative inquiry in a multicultural landscape: Multicultural teaching and learning. Westport, CT:: Ablex.

Pier, J. (Ed.). (2005). The dynamics of narrative form: Studies in Anglo-American narratology. Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter.

Richardson, B. (Ed.). (2002). Narrative dynamics: Essays on time, plot, closure, and frames. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Rishoi, C. (2003). From girl to woman: American women's coming-of-age narratives. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Robillard, A. E. (2003). It’s time for class: Towards a more complex pedagogy of narrative. College English, 66(1), 74–92.

Trites, R. (2000). Disturbing the universe: Power and repression in adolescent literature. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Vervaeck, L. H. B. (2005). Handbook of narrative analysis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Zunshine, L. (2006). Why we read fiction: Theory of mind and the novel. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

New Historical

Colebrook, C. (1997). New literary histories: New historicism and contemporary criticism. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Elam, H. R., & Ferguson, F. (Eds.). (2005). The Wordsworthian enlightenment: Romantic poetry and the ecology of reading enlightenment: Romantic poetry and the ecology of reading. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Gallagher, C., & Greenblatt, S. (2001). Practicing new historicism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Greenblatt, S. (1992). Marvelous possessions: The wonder of the new world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mentz, S. (2006). Romance for sale in early modern England: The rise of prose fiction. New York: Ashgate Publishing.

Pfau, T. (2005). Romantic moods: Paranoia, trauma, and melancholy, 1790–1840. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Veeser, H. (1989). The new historicism. New York: Routledge.

Wyke, J. (2006). Julius Caesar in western culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Poststructuralism/Deconstruction Criticism

Bannet, E. T. (1989). Structuralism and the logic of dissent: Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Belsey, B. (2002). Poststructuralism: A very short introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.

Culler, J. (2002). Deconstruction: Critical concepts in literary and cultural studies. New York: Routledge.

Davis, C. (2003). After poststructuralism; reading, stories and theory. New York: Routledge.

Derrida, J. (1980). Writing and difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Derrida, J. (1998). Of grammatology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

MacLachlan, I. (2004). Jacques Derrida: Critical thought. New York: Ashgate.

Mellor, B., & Patterson, A. (2001). Nvestigating texts: Analyzing fiction and nonfiction in high school. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Mellor, B., Patterson, A., & O’Neill, M. (2000). Reading fictions: Apply literary theory to short stories. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Palmer, D. (1997). Structuralism and poststructuralism for beginners. New York: Writers and Readers.

Weedon, C. (1996). Feminist practice and poststructuralist theory. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Zima, P. (2005). Deconstruction and critical theory. New York: Continuum International.

Postcolonial Criticism

Agnew, V. (Ed.). (2006). Diaspora, memory, and identity: A search for home. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Anderson, B. (1991). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso.

Ashcroft, B. (2001). Post-colonial studies: The key concepts (\ Ed. New York: Routledge.

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1998). Key concepts in post-colonial studies. New York: Routledge.

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (2002). The empire writes back: Theory and practice in post-colonial literatures. New York: Routledge.

Bhabha, H. (2004). The location of culture. New York: Routledge.

Bhabha, H. K. (1990). Nation and narration. New York: Routledge.

Branche, J. C. (2006). Colonialism and race in Luso-Hispanic literature. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Coundouriotis, E. (Coundouriotis, E. ). Claiming history: Colonialism, ethnography, and the novel. New York: Columbia University Press.

Curran, J., & Park, M. (Eds.). (2000). De-westernizing media studies. New York: Routledge.

Dirks, N. (Ed.). (1992). Colonialism and culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Dirlik, A. (1997). The postcolonial aura: Third world criticism in the age of global capitalism. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Ghazoul, F. (2005). Edward Said and critical decolonization. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press.

Gilroy, P. (2004). Postcolonial melancholia. New York: Columbia University Press.

Guha, R. (1997). Dominance without hegemony: History and power in colonial India. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Harrison, N. (2003). Postcolonial criticism: History, theory and the work of fiction. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

Lazarus, N. (Ed.). (2004). The Cambridge companion to postcolonial literary studies. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Leonard, P. (2005). Nationality between poststructuralism and postcolonial theory: A new cosmopolitanism. New York: Palgrave.

Longx, Z. (2005). Allegoresis: Reading canonical literature east and west. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY.

Madsen, D. L. (Ed.). (2003). Beyond the borders: American literature and post-colonial theory.Pluto Press.

McLaren, P. (Ed.). (2001). Postmodernism, postcolonialism and pedagogy. New York: James Nicholas.

Moore-Gilbert, B. (1997). Postcolonial theory: Contexts, practices, politics. London: Verso.

Prakash, G. (1995). After colonialism: Imperial histories and postcolonial displacements. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Said, E. W. (1978). Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books.

Said, E. W. (2006). On late style: Music and literature against the grain. New York: Pantheon.

Singh, A., & Schmidt, P. (2000). Postcolonial theory and the united states: Race, ethnicity, and literature. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Spivak, G. C. (1999). A critique of postcolonial reason: Toward a history of the vanishing present. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Young, R. J. C. (2003). Postcolonialism: A very short introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.

Postmodern Theory

Alemany-Galway, M. (2002). A postmodern cinema. New York: Rowan & Littlefield.

Bignell, J. (2000). Postmodern media culture. Edinburgh, Scotls: Edinburgh University Press.

Butler, C. (2003). Postmodernism: A very short introduction. New York: Oxford University Press.

Connor, S. (Ed.). (2004). The Cambridge companion to postmodernism. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Daspit, T., & Weaver, J. (1998). Popular culture and critical pedagogy: Reading, constructing, connecting. New York: Garland.

Giroux, H. (1997). Counternarratives: Cultural studies and critical pedagogies in postmodern spaces. New York: Routledge.

Green, B., & Fitzclarence, L. (1999). Schooling the future: Education, youth and postmodernism. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis.

Hoffman, G. (2005). From modernism to postmodernism: Concepts and strategies of postmodern American fiction Amsterdam: Rodopi Editions.

Iftekharrudin, F., Boyden, J., Rohrberger, M., & Claudet, J. (Eds.). (2003). The postmodern short story: Forms and issues. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Jameson, F. (1992). Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Kelly, U. (1997). Schooling desire: Literacy, cultural politics, and pedagogy. New York: Routledge.

Lyotard, J.-F. (1984). The postmodern condition: A report on knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Marshall, B. K. (1992). Teaching the postmodern: Fiction and theory. New York: Routledge.

McRobbie, A. (1994). Postmodernism and popular culture. New York: Routledge.

Nicol, B. (2003). Postmodernism and the contemporary novel: A reader. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.

Raschke, C. (2002). The digital revolution and the coming of the postmodern university. New York: Routledge.

Psychoanalytic Analysis

Alcorn, M. W. (2002). Changing the subject in English class: Discourse and the constructions of desire. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Armstrong, P. (2001). Shakespeare in psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge.

Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.

Chaitin, G. D. (2006). Rhetoric and culture in Lacan. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Deleuze, G. (1989). Cinema 2: The time-image. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Gay, V. P. (2001). Joy and the objects of psychoanalysis: Literature, belief, and neurosis. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Green, K., & LeBihan, J. (1996). Critical theory & practice: A coursebook. New York: Routledge.

Holland, N. (1998). Reading and identity. Retrieved from http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/nnh/rdgident.htm

Homer, S. (2005). Jacques Lacan. New York: Routledge.

Jagodzinski, J. (2004). Youth fantasies: The perverse landscape of the media. New York: Palgrave.

Johnson, B. (2000). He feminist difference: Literature, psychoanalysis, race, and gender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Kaplan, A. (Ed.). (1990). Psychoanalysis and the cinema. New York: Routledge.

Labeua, V. (1994). Lost angels: Psychoanalysis and cinema. New York: Routledge.

Lacan, J. (1977). The four fundamental concepts of psycho-analysis. London: Hogarth Press.

Parkin-Gounelas, R. (2001). Literature and psychoanalysis: Intertextual readings. New York: Palgrave.

Phillips, A. (2001). Promises, promises: Essays on psychoanalysis and literature. New York: Basic Books.

Ricciardi, A. (2003). The ends of mourning: Psychoanalysis, literature, film. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Schultheis, A. (2004). Regenerative fictions: Postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, and the nation as family. New York: Palgrave.

Valentine, K. (Kylie Valentine). Psychoanalysis, psychiatry and modernist literature. New York: Palgrave.

Vine, S. (Ed.). (2005). Literature in psychoanalysis: A practical reader. New York: Palgrave.

Woodman, R. G. (2005). Sanity, madness, transformation: The psyche in romanticism. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Reader Response Criticism

Beach, R. (1993). A teacher's introduction to reader-response theories. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Beach, R. (2000). Reading and responding to literature at the level of activity. Journal of Literacy Research, 32(2), 237-251.

Bean, T. W., & Rigoni, N. Exploring the intergenerational dialogue journal discussion of a multicultural young adult novel. Reading Research Quarterly, 36(3), 232-248

Bean, T. W., & Rigoni, N. Exploring the intergenerational dialogue journal discussion of a multicultural young adult novel. Reading Research Quarterly.

Berne, J. I., & Clark, K. F. (2006). Comprehension strategy use during peer-led discussions of text: Ninth graders tackle “The Lottery.” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 49(8), 674-697.

Bortolussi, M. D., P. (2003). Psychonarratology: Foundations for the empirical study of literary response. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Davis, T. F., & Womack, K. (2002). Formalist criticism and reader-response theory. New York: Palgrave.

Deblase, G. (2005). Negotiating points of divergence in the literacy classroom: The role of narrative and authorial readings in students’ talking and thinking about literature. English Education, 38(1), 9-22.

Enriquez, G. (2006). The reader speaks out: Adolescent reflections about controversial young adult literature. The ALAN Review, 33(2), 16-23.

Feagen, S. L. (1996). Reading with feeling: The aesthetics of appreciation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Fish, S. E. (1980). Is there a text in this class? The authority of interpretive communities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Flynn, E. (2002). Feminism beyond modernism. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Galda, L., & Beach, R. (2001). Response to literature as a cultural activity. Reading Research Quarterly, 36(1), 64-73.

Hinchman, K. A., & Young, J. P. Speaking but not being heard: Two adolescents negotiate classroom talk about text. Journal of Literacy Research, 33(2), 243-268.

Hines, M. B., & Appleman, D. Multiple ways of knowing in literature classrooms. English Education, 32(2), 141-168.

Hines, M. B., & Appleman, D. (2000). Multiple ways of knowing in literature classrooms. English Education, 32(2), 141-168.

Holland, N. (1968). The dynamics of literary response. New York: Oxford University Press.

Iser, W. (1974). The implied reader: Patterns of communication in prose fiction from Bunyan to Beckett. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Jackson, H. L. (2005). Romantic readers: The evidence of marginalia. New Haven: Yale University Press.

King-Shaver, B. (2005). When text meets text: Helping high school readers make connections in literature. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Kooy, M., & Wells, J. (1996). Reader-response logs: Inviting students to explore novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and more. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Lewis, C. (2000). Limits of identification: The personal, pleasurable, and critical in reader response. Journal of Literacy Research, 32(2), 253-266.

Lewis, C. (2000). Limits of identification: The personal, pleasurable, and critical in reader response. Journal of Literacy Research, 32(2), 253-266.

Lifford, J., Byron, B., Eckblad, J., & Ziemian, C. (2000). Reading, responding, reflecting. English Journal, 89(4), 46-57.

Mailloux, S. (1982). Interpretive conventions: The reader in the study of American fiction. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Many, J., & Cox, C. (Eds.). (1992). Reader stance and literary understanding: Exploring the theories, research, and practice. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

McCormick, K. (1994). The culture of reading and the teaching of English. New York: Manchester University Press.

McLaughlin, M., & De Voogd, G. (2004). Critical literacy as comprehension: Expanding reader response. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 48(1), 52-62.

Moller, K. J., & Allen, J. (2000). Connecting, resisting, and searching for safer places: Students respond to Mildred Taylor's "The Friendship." Journal of Literacy Research, 32(2), 145-186.

Pace, B. G. (2006). Between response and interpretation: Ideological becoming and literacy events in critical readings of literature. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 49(7), 584–594.

Pradl, G. M. (1996). Literature for democracy: Reading as a social act. Portsmith, NH: Boynton/Cook.

Rosenblatt, L. M. (1978). The reader, the text, the poem. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Rosenblatt, L. M. (Ed.). (1995). Literature as exploration (5th ed.). New York: Modern Language Association.

Smith, M. W., & Connolly, W. (2005). The effects of interpretive authority on classroom discussions of poetry: Lessons from one teacher. Communication Education, 54(4), 271-288.

Soublis, T., & Winkler, E. (2004). Transcending bias through reader-response theory. English Journal, 94(2), 12-14

Sullivan, P. (2002). "Reception moments," Modern literary theory, and the teaching of literature. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 45(7), 568-577.

Sumara, D., Davis, B., & Iftody, T. (2006). Normalizing literary responses in the teacher education classroom. Changing English, 13(1), 55–67.

Sumara, D. J. (2002). Why reading literature in school still matters: Imagination, interpretation, insight. New York: Erllbaum.

Tompkins, J. P. (Ed.). (1980). Reader-response criticism: From formalism to post-structuralism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Semiotic Analysis:

Barthes, R. (1975). The pleasure of the text. New York: Hill & Wang.

Barthes, R. (1975). S/Z: An essay. New York: Hill & Wang.

Barthes, R. (1977). Elements of semiology. New York: Hill & Wang.

Bell, A. (1998). The discourse structure of news stories. In A. Bell & P. Garrett (Eds.), Approaches to media discourse (pp. 64-104). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Bondanella, P. (2005). Umberto Eco and the open text: Semiotics, fiction, popular culture. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Chandler, D. (2001). Semiotics: The basics. New York: Routledge.

Cobley, P. (1999). Introducing semiotics. London: Icon Books.

Culler, J. D. (2002). The pursuit of signs: Semiotics, literature, deconstruction. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Danesi, M. (2002). Understanding media semiotics. London: Arnold.

Eco, U. (2005). On literature. New York: Harvest Books.

Hawkes, T. (2003). Structuralism and semiotics. New York: Routledge.

Hodge, R., & Kress, G. Social semiotics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Kress, G., & Van Leenwen, T. (2001). Barthes and the empire of signs. New York: Routledge.

Petrilli, S., & Ponzio, A. (2005). Semiotics unbounded: Interpretive routes through the open network of signs. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Scholes, R. (1986). Textual power: Literary theory and the teaching of English. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Scholes, R. (2001). The crafty reader. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Shapiro, M., & Shapiro, M. (Eds.). (2005). From the critic's workbench: Essays in literature and semiotics. New York: Peter Lang.

Sturken, M., & Cartwright, L. (2001). Practices of looking. New York: Oxford University Press.

Thomas, J. (Ed.). (2000). Reading images. New York: Palgrave.

Thwaites, T., Davis, L., & Mules, W. (2002). Introducing cultural and media studies: A semiotic approach. New York: Palgrave.

Trifonas, P. (1996). Reading images. London: Icon Books.

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further reading (old)

Agger, B. (1993). Gender, Culture, and Power: Toward a Feminist Postmodern Critcal Theory. Praeger Pub.

Aguiar, S. A. (2001). The Bitch Is Back: Wicked Women in Literature. Southern Illinois University Press.

Allen , J., Möller, K. J., & Stroup, D. (2003). "Is this some kind of soap opera?": A tale of two readers across four literature discussion contexts. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 19(3), 225- 251.

Anderson, L. (1997). Women and autobiography in the twentieth century: Remembered futures. Prentice Hall.

Appleman, D. (2000). Critical Encounters in High School English:Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents. Teachers College Press.

Assiter, A. (1996). Enlightened Women: Modernist Feminism in a Postmodern Age. Routledge.

Bakhtin, M. M. (1981). Discourse in the novel. In M. Holquist (Ed.), The dialogic imagination (pp. 259-422). The University of Texas Press.

Banks, J. A. (1991). A curriculum for empowerment, action, and change. In C. E. Sleeter (Ed.), Empowerment through multicultural education (pp. 125-141). State University of New York Press.

Barbieri, M. (1995). Sounds from the Heart: Learning to Listen to Girls. Heinemann.

Barr, M. S., ed. (2000). Future Females, the Next Generation: Feminist Science Fiction's New Voices and Velocities. Rowman & Littlefield.

Barry, P. (2002). Beginning theory: An introduction to literary and cultural theory. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

Bartkowski , F. (1989) Feminist Utopias. University of Nebraska Press.

Bauerlein , M., Gioia, D., & Kennedy, J. (2005). The Longman Dictionary of Literary Terms: Vocabulary for the Informed Reader. Taylor & Francis Group:.

Baxter, J. (2004). Positioning gender in discourse: A feminist methodology . Palgrave.

Baym, N. (1992). Feminism and American Literary History: Essays. Rutgers University Press.

Beach, R. (1993). A teacher's introduction to reader response theories. Urbana , IL : National Council of Teachers of English.

Beach, R. (June 2000) Reading and Responding to Literature at the Level of Activity. Journal of Literacy Research, 32(2), 237-51 .

Beach, R. (1997). Students' Resistance to Engagement with Multicultural Literature. In T. Rogers & A. O. Soter (Eds.), Reading Across Cultures: Teaching Literature in a Diverse Society (pp. 69-94). Teachers College Press.

Bean, R., & Moni, K. (2003). Developing students' critical literacy: Exploring identity construction in young adult fiction. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 46 (8), 638-648.

Bean, T.W., et. al., (July/August/September 2001). Exploring the intergenerational dialogue journal discussion of a multicultural young adult novel. Reading Research Quarterly, 36(3), p. 232-48.

Beaulieu, E.A. (1999). Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Feminity Unfettered.

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