Textuality: Power and Pleasure.

Scholes, Robert

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Publication Date: 1987

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Textuality: Power and Pleasure.

Scholes, Robert

English Education, v19 n2 p69-82 May 1987

Offers several reasons why English teachers should set aside the notion of literature and center teaching around the related but distinct notion of textuality. Discusses why the study of textuality should play a major role in a full curriculum aimed toward the development of alert, aware citizens. (JD)

Descriptors: Critical Reading, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Higher Education, Literacy, Persuasive Discourse, Reading Skills, Rhetorical Criticism, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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