'Wasn't She a Lesbian?' Teaching Homoerotic Themes in Dickinson and Whitman
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| Title: | 'Wasn't She a Lesbian?' Teaching Homoerotic Themes in Dickinson and Whitman |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Comment, Kristin M. |
| Source: | English Journal. Mar 2009 98(4):61-66. |
| Availability: | National Council of Teachers of English. 1111 West Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096. Tel: 877-369-6283; Tel: 217-328-3870; Web site: http://www.ncte.org/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
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| Page Count: | 6 |
| Publication Date: | 2009 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Education Level: | High Schools Higher Education |
| Descriptors: | Homosexuality, Authors, Secondary School Teachers, Literature, Gender Issues, English, Language Arts, Teaching Methods, High School Students, College Students |
| ISSN: | 0013-8274 |
| Abstract: | Drawing on published scholarship and her own high school teaching, the author describes how works by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman can be used to integrate GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) issues into English classes. The author can't imagine a single high school that doesn't include Whitman and Dickinson at some point in its curriculum, so she has chosen to focus on these two writers as examples of how teachers might begin to integrate GLBT issues into their teaching. She offers suggestions for how teachers unfamiliar with these topics might work them into units covering Whitman and Dickinson. These are approaches she has found successful with high school juniors and seniors and in lower level college literature classes. (Contains 2 notes.) |
| Abstractor: | ERIC |
| Number of References: | 10 |
| Entry Date: | 2009 |
| Access URL: | https://www.ncte.org/journals/ej/issues/v98-4 |
| Accession Number: | EJ832274 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Drawing on published scholarship and her own high school teaching, the author describes how works by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman can be used to integrate GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) issues into English classes. The author can't imagine a single high school that doesn't include Whitman and Dickinson at some point in its curriculum, so she has chosen to focus on these two writers as examples of how teachers might begin to integrate GLBT issues into their teaching. She offers suggestions for how teachers unfamiliar with these topics might work them into units covering Whitman and Dickinson. These are approaches she has found successful with high school juniors and seniors and in lower level college literature classes. (Contains 2 notes.) |
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| ISSN: | 0013-8274 |
