The Creating Word: Papers from an International Conference on the Learning and Teaching of English in the 1980s

Front Matter....Pages i-viiiIntroduction....Pages 1-5
Rhetoric and Rightness: Some Fallacies in a Science of Language....Pages 7-29
Construing and Deconstructing....Pages 30-65
The Literary Transaction....Pages 66-85
The Teaching of Poetry....Pages 86-100
Seizing the Shining Reality: the Novel in the Classroom....Pages 101-115
Teaching the Novel: the Creative Word in Great Expectations....Pages 116-133
Creative Writing: Can It Be Taught?....Pages 134-145
Writing: Self-Consciousness and a Change in Reality?....Pages 146-157
What Is Language for?: a Functional View of the Language Arts....Pages 158-176
Language, Literature and the Computer....Pages 177-196
Canadian Literature in the Secondary Curriculum....Pages 197-210Back Matter....Pages 211-215