CFP: Teaching the Novel (5/15/05; MMLA, 11/10/05-11/13/05)

*For the 47th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association*
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*November 10-13, 2005 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin *

*"Teaching the Novel as Genre: Best Practices for Cultivating Critical
Thinking and Careful Analysis." *Professors in many English departments
and across disciplines are increasingly weaving the genre of the novel
into their courses; and, consequently, we're seeing novels appear in
everything from criticism classes to courses in sports and literature
and literature and the landscape. This temptation and corresponding
tendency to assign what often proves to be an unwieldy, but rewarding
type of text to teach leads to a number of questions: Why do we teach
novels? How do we teach them? What do we have our students doing with
them? Which novels cultivate the kinds of critical thinking germane to
specific issues, topics, or themes? How does teaching novels help
instructors achieve objectives and goals? How, in short, do we make
reading these works a truly novel, meaningful experience? Colin Irvine,
Augsburg College, irvinec_at_augsburg.edu <mailto:irvinec_at_augsburg.edu>

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