... to conventions, reject assumptions and established meanings and work out alternate solutions. Keywords Twenty- first century education, poststructuralist literary theory, teaching of literature, critical pedagogy, social cognitive learning. Introduction The current study is concerned with evaluating the value of use of literary theory as a pedagogical tool to achieve the aims and objectives of twenty- first ... volume of research is also available which recommends reader response approaches and introduces cognitive teaching strategies, techniques, and activities that promote creative,...

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... Canon is perceived as the paradigm of exquisite literature bound with key concepts fundamental to our understanding and exploration of societal and political values, rendering it to be widely admired by all. Scholars uphold works from the Literary Canon with the highest regard and proceed to manifest these works into school curriculum for literary study due to their powerful influential nature and ... a superior quality, a skillfully crafted masterpiece guaranteed for your enjoyment, founded on layers of significant concepts. The English Canon is often seen as an authoritative list beari...

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... , with a peer group that included such contemporaries as Robert Southey and Samuel Coleridge. These companions of Wordsworth's, but most importantly collaborators had the advantage of a male tradition in literature to work and study from. Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge are merely three of many examples of great male writers who began their literary careers with the luxury of guidance and example, an advantage ... ...

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