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Diaries to an English Professor is a poignant study of the journals that students have written in Jeffrey Berman's college class on literature and psychoanalysis over the course of fifteen years. Introspective and ungraded, the diaries offer a unique glimpse into the personal world of students' lives. Again and again, they turn to similar struggles, including eating disorders, divorce, sexual activity, suicide, and interactions with others.
The power of the book lies in the students' voices: articulate, honest, often eloquent.
Berman's thesis is that by writing weekly diaries and hearing a few of these entries read anonymously to the class, students are often able to experience breakthroughs in aspects of their own lives they rarely discuss. Contrary to the fears expressed by a number of educators, the author demonstrates how, with proper safeguards, the classroom can be an appropriate opportunity for personal as well as intellectual growth and self-discovery.
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Authorship, Books and reading, Creative writing (Higher education), Diaries, English language, Literature, Psychoanalysis and literature, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Books and reading, Psychological aspects of Creative writing (Higher education), Rhetoric, Rhetoric and psychology, Study and teaching, Study and teaching (Higher), English language, rhetoric, Literature, study and teachingShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Diaries to an English professor: pain and growth in the classroom
1994, University of Massachusetts Press
in English
0870239279 9780870239274
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