The story causes the reader to analyze the dialogue in order to uncover the abortion discourse. After many readers discover this, they cease to continue investigating the other discourses present. ... As the story unfolds into the abortion discourse, that realization covers a hidden meaning within the text. ...
Literary Theory Is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. The word "theory" has become an approach to reading texts. The modern sense of "literary theory" dates only to approximately the 1950s, when the structuralist linguists Ferdinand de Sauss...
Thus, "pedagogists", as Laurie Grobman (1999) maintains, " have turned to the resistance model, which proposes that we encourage students' appropriation of academic discourse to enable them to critique it" (432).1 By allowing students to bring their own stories, experiences, ideas, and critiques into the classroom, this provides the students with opportunities to work together, to learn from one another, and respect one another's differences-social and cultural. Previous Experiences of Teaching My previous method of teaching was teacher-centered one in which, as...
