Critical Encounters in High School English Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents

This book challenges current paradigms of literature instruction by making a case for teaching critical theory in high school literature classrooms. It argues for the importance of multiple critical perspectives and urges teachers to expand their theoretical repertoires.Teachers will find actual lessons and strategies for teaching a variety of contemporary literary theories including reader response, feminism, Marxism, and deconstruction.Appleman, Deborah is the author of 'Critical Encounters in High School English Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents' with ISBN 9780807739754 and ISBN 0807739758.