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Direct linkMyers, David Gershom – University of Chicago Press, 2006
When Vladimir Nabokov was up for a chair in literature at Harvard, the linguist Roman Jakobson protested: "What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?" That anecdote, with which D. G. Myers begins "The Elephants Teach", perfectly frames the issues this book tackles. Myers explores more than a century of debate over how writing should…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Creative Writing, Poetry, Educational History
