Critical Approaches to Teaching the High School Novel

Crag Hill is an associate professor of English Education at the University of Oklahoma, USA.Victor Malo-Juvera is an associate professor of English Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.

• 1. Introduction: The Center of the Canon: The High School ClassroomCrag Hill and Victor Malo-Juvera2. Why Did the "Star-Crossed Lovers" Never Have a Chance? (Mis)Guided Adult Interference in Romeo and JulietMark A. Lewis3. Dances, Dresses, and Speaking Her Mind: The Cultural Work of Pride and PrejudiceKatharine Montwieler, University of North Carolina Wilmington4. Teaching Huckleberry Finn in an Era of Tenuous Race RelationsJudith A. Hayn and Autumn M. Dodge5. It’s Really All About Tom: Performances of the Masculine Self in The Great GatsbyMichael Macaluso and Kati Macaluso6. Readers’ Hearts Seek Connection: Transactional Theory Applied to The Heart Is a Lonely HunterSharon Kane7. Disturbing the Universe: Reading The Stranger Through a Lens of Philosophical CriticismSean P. Connors8. What Does The Glass Menagerie and Its Discussion Questions Teach about Disability? And How to Undo ItPatricia A. Dunn and Angela Broderick9. Reinterpreting Revolutions: An "Encoding/Decoding" Analysis of Animal FarmLara Searcy, Jonathan B. Allred, Seth D. French, and Christian Z. Goering10. When New Criticism and Reader Response Aren’t Enough: Reading "Against" To Kill a Mockingbird Through a Critical Whiteness LensSusan L. Groenke11. Literary Authorship and Community Seers in Bless Me, Última and The House on Mango Street: ‘Let me begin at the beginning’R. Joseph Rodríguez12. "We got to be smart to git away": Revisiting African American Language and Emancipatory Literacy in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Sapphire’s PUSHRaquel Kennon