 | Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Literary form -- History -- 20th century; Modernism (Literature) -; "Classrooms and curricula should be structured to foster the playful interaction that can teach students how to negotiate social and political differences in an emancipatory, noncoercive manner.... Teaching reading as a playful exercise of... Paul B. Armstrong is Professor of English and Dean of the College, Brown University. He is the author of The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford; The Phenomenology of Henry James, and Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation . He is also the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster and a forthcoming revised Norton Critical Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. |
