Critical Literacy and the Aesthetic: Transforming the English Classroom

by Wendy Morgan and Ray Misson

Book Overview

Ray Misson and Wendy Morgan address the role of aesthetics in an age of postmodern criticism, showing how critical literacy and the aesthetic are reconcilable in literary theory and practice.

Why does critical literacy often feel uncomfortable with aesthetic texts like poetry? In this provocative book, Ray Misson and Wendy Morgan, proponents of critical literacy in their home country of Australia, develop an understanding of the aesthetic in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814149510
• ISBN13: 9780814149515
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.9" x 5.9"