Myron C. Tuman is Professor of English at the University of Alabama. He has written several books, including Word Perfect: Literacy in the Computer Age and A Preface to Literacy: An Inquiry into Pedagogy, Practice, and Progress; as well as the software, Norton Textra Writer.

• Preface Acknowledgements 1 Lying Cretans, or the Paradox of Critical Thinking 2 Reading, Writing, and Resistance 3 Deep Reading and Writing 4 Metaphor, Culture, and Play 5 The Emperor's New Clothes: A Tale of Resistance 6 Literature as Local Practice 7 "They Say That, But": Writing Instruction as Local Practice 8 "Shaped by the Rules": The Resistant Class 9 Vico's Voice, or Beyond Critical Pedagogy Works Cited Index

"Language and Limits tackles an important issue, the role of critical thinking (in the neo-Marxist sense) and opposes to it, an approach that uses a broader appeal, the appeal of the imaginative apprehension of the world. Tuman does it with wit and verve and with a sense of the positive uses of critical thinking and at the same time the longer-lasting human values." — Alan C. Purves"This is a superbly argued book. It demonstrates and celebrates an educational value I prize greatly: namely the disposition and capacity to declare one's ground and argue for it. Broad in its scholarly sweep and highly focused in its intent and execution." — Colin Lankshear, Queensland University of Technology

Myron C. Tuman is Professor of English at the University of Alabama. He has written several books, including Word Perfect: Literacy in the Computer Age and A Preface to Literacy: An Inquiry into Pedagogy, Practice, and Progress; as well as the software, Norton Textra Writer.

• Preface Acknowledgements 1 Lying Cretans, or the Paradox of Critical Thinking 2 Reading, Writing, and Resistance 3 Deep Reading and Writing 4 Metaphor, Culture, and Play 5 The Emperor's New Clothes: A Tale of Resistance 6 Literature as Local Practice 7 "They Say That, But": Writing Instruction as Local Practice 8 "Shaped by the Rules": The Resistant Class 9 Vico's Voice, or Beyond Critical Pedagogy Works Cited Index

"Language and Limits tackles an important issue, the role of critical thinking (in the neo-Marxist sense) and opposes to it, an approach that uses a broader appeal, the appeal of the imaginative apprehension of the world. Tuman does it with wit and verve and with a sense of the positive uses of critical thinking and at the same time the longer-lasting human values." — Alan C. Purves"This is a superbly argued book. It demonstrates and celebrates an educational value I prize greatly: namely the disposition and capacity to declare one's ground and argue for it. Broad in its scholarly sweep and highly focused in its intent and execution." — Colin Lankshear, Queensland University of Technology

Myron C. Tuman is Professor of English at the University of Alabama. He has written several books, including Word Perfect: Literacy in the Computer Age and A Preface to Literacy: An Inquiry into Pedagogy, Practice, and Progress; as well as the software, Norton Textra Writer.

• Preface Acknowledgements 1 Lying Cretans, or the Paradox of Critical Thinking 2 Reading, Writing, and Resistance 3 Deep Reading and Writing 4 Metaphor, Culture, and Play 5 The Emperor's New Clothes: A Tale of Resistance 6 Literature as Local Practice 7 "They Say That, But": Writing Instruction as Local Practice 8 "Shaped by the Rules": The Resistant Class 9 Vico's Voice, or Beyond Critical Pedagogy Works Cited Index

"Language and Limits tackles an important issue, the role of critical thinking (in the neo-Marxist sense) and opposes to it, an approach that uses a broader appeal, the appeal of the imaginative apprehension of the world. Tuman does it with wit and verve and with a sense of the positive uses of critical thinking and at the same time the longer-lasting human values." — Alan C. Purves"This is a superbly argued book. It demonstrates and celebrates an educational value I prize greatly: namely the disposition and capacity to declare one's ground and argue for it. Broad in its scholarly sweep and highly focused in its intent and execution." — Colin Lankshear, Queensland University of Technology