Reading, Learning, Teaching Kurt Vonnegut

Our English classrooms are often only as vibrant as the literature that we teach. This book explores the writing of contemporary American author, Kurt Vonnegut, who offers readers and students engaging fiction and nonfiction works that confront the reader and the world. Here, teachers will find an introduction to the life and works of Vonnegut and an opportunity to explore how to bring his works into the classroom as a part of the reading and writing curriculum. This volume attempts to confront what we teach and how we teach as English teachers through the vivid texts Vonnegut offers his readers.

About the author

The Author: P. L. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Education at Furman University (Greenville, SC), taught English for 18 years before entering higher education. He holds an Ed.D. from the University of South Carolina and is the author of Numbers Games (Lang, 2004), Teaching Writing Primer (Lang, 2005), and Reading, Learning, Teaching Barbara Kingsolver (Lang, 2005).

Product details

• Authors: P. L. Thomas, Paul L Thomas, Paul L. Thomas
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780820463377
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-6337-7
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 10 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 270 g
• Series: Confronting the Text, Confronting the World; Confronting the Text, Confronting the World
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics