This essay examines the kind of culinary memoir that chronicles the growth and development of the memoirist through the lens of food memories, in narratives that either begin with childhood or that interpose frequent flashbacks to earliest formative experiences. The author examines some of the key elements of this subgenre of the memoir, this…

The author analyzes his experiences teaching literature courses in which he encourages students to research works by people from their hometowns. He argues that relating literature to concepts of "home" makes English classes more accessible to students while also helping them reflect on important issues in ecocriticism. (Contains 31…

The relationship between economics and education that is more reciprocal than is often admitted is illustrated. The study contributes to contemporary understanding of how language-arts education relates to economic forces and how contemporary teachers can affect more forms of capitalism.

A symposium in the November 2006 issue of "College English" addresses the question, "What should college English be?" In this article, the author presents his answer to this question--it should be a functional approach to English studies. By English studies he means everything that is done in English departments. Most English departments teach…

A dialogue with a soul in Purgatory which points out that people write to make things real. (DD)

The reforms of both literary studies and composition are essential if English department wants to remain integral to the liberal arts curriculum. English studies integrates work in literature, language studies and culture with horizontally writing instruction and not hierarchically.

Discusses cultural birthright and social heritage or fate as metaphors too often taken literally and provides numerous instances, both general and specific, to support the thesis. (TO)

Argues that composition studies could use a paradigm shift: a turning from the threadbare ideology of the text to an alternative so mundane as to be overlooked, ordinary sensuous life, which is not an effect of thought but the basis of thought itself. (TB)

A weekly letter to the class gives each student in a literature class a chance to uncover their relationship to what they are reading. (DD)

A consideration of the usefulness of Bernstein's concepts of restricted" and elaborated" language codes for an enhanced understanding of the relationship which exists between the language of literature and that of the street and the supermarket." (Author/RD)

A story is presented which is based on two intersecting sites of textual production in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The story is the beginning of what can be said about the alliance and adaptation tactics used by Susan La Flesche Picotte.

The rhetorical strategies used to justify "new" readings by thematic critics reveal the essentially trivial nature of the thematic approach.

Argues that assignments to write about literature can help teach rhetoric" only if administered with emphasis on the special rhetorical problems they pose." (Author/RD)

Considers how the history of relations between composition and literature has involved a vexed tangle of misunderstanding and hurt. Suggests that both fields would benefit from thinking through some of the vexations. Argues for maintaining the marriage between composition and literature. Admires the situation in schools where there is no tension…

A comparison between composition and literature is presented in Harriet Malinowitz's "Business, Pleasure, and the Personal Essay". The importance of praising and analyzing various interpretations of a text to English studies is emphasized.