Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form

Name: Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By Matthew Cheney

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What is the role of the author in times of crisis? Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form examines how Virginia Woolf, Samuel R. Delany, and J. M. Coetzee developed literary strategies in common to cope with crisis periods they were anticipating, living through, or looking back on. Matthew Cheney outlines how the three writers shaped their art to create an author/audience relationship congruent with the goals of critical pedagogy espoused by such thinkers as Paulo Freire and bell hooks.
Seeking to stimulate ethical thought, Woolf, Delany, and Coetzee required their readers to be active interpreters of their texts' forms, contents, and contexts. By pushing against fiction's fictionality, these writers of very different backgrounds, geographies, privileges, situations, tastes, and styles discovered complex ways to address the world wars in England, the AIDS crisis in New York, and apartheid in South Africa, going so far as to question the value of fiction itself.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 216
Release Date:: 2020-01-23
Publication Date:: 2020-01-23
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1501355910
ISBN13:: 9781501355912
Weight:: 471 g
Height:: 157 cm
Width:: 235 cm
Thickness:: 16 cm

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