Writing about Literature

Joanna Wolfe and Laura Wilder's *Digging into Literature" (2 votes)

Laura Wilder & I wrote this as a rhetorical approach to teaching literary and cultural analysis. We wanted to create a relatively slim, inexpensive book that instructors could supplement with their own selection of texts, novels, movies, art works, etc.

Robert Scholes, Nancy Comley, and Gregory Ulmer's: Writing through Literature

Schilb and Clifford's Making Literature Matter

Donahue and Salvatori’s Elements (and Pleasures) of Difficulty

What If I Was to Teach a Lit Course?

Young, Art; Toby Fulwiler (Eds.) When writing teachers teach literature: Bringing writing to reading, Boynton/Cook 1995.

The book has a great cast of contributors: Bishop Wendy, Lynn Bloom, Peter Elbow, Cheryl Glenn, Deborah Holstein, Charles Moran, Tom Newark, Linda Peterson, Helen Schwart, Charles Shuster, Jeff Sommers, etc.

If I Ever Decide I want to teach a literature class

A "transational approach" to teaching literature, forwarded by Louise Rosenblatt in Literature as Exploration.

Literature As Equipment for Living (Kenneth Burke)