Reading Poetry with College and University Students

Overcoming Barriers and Deepening Engagement

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Thomas Fink, Thomas Fink
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Reading Poetry with College and University Students

Overcoming Barriers and Deepening Engagement

"Reading Poetry with College and University Students aims to help faculty foster students' intellectual and aesthetic engagement with poems while enabling them to sharpen critical and creative thinking skills. Reading works across history and the globe-such as Julia Alvarez, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mahmoud Darwish, John Donne, Paolo Javier, Yusef Komunyakaa, Audre Lorde, and Wislawa Szymborska-Thomas Fink zeroes in on how learners can surmount and even enjoy tackling the most difficult aspects of poetry. By exploring students' emotional identification with speakers and characters of poems and with poets themselves, Fink shows how an instructor can motivate students to produce effective and empathic interpretations. Through divergent readings of particular poems, the book addresses the influence of various theoretical paradigms, ranging from ecological, psychological, feminist, and queer theory to deconstructive, postcolonial, and surface reading orientations. Instructors receive practical guidance through these poems, poets, and modes of reading, helping to give learners raw material to reach their own nuanced interpretations and strengthen their emotional, aesthetic, and intellectual acumen."--

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Language
English
Pages
176

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Library of Congress
PN1101 .F57 2022eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
176
Number of pages
176
Weight
0.455

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL36761276M
ISBN 13
9781501389450
OCLC/WorldCat
1293235037
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.5040/9781501389498

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Work ID
OL27086136W

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