Un/Critical Approaches to (Teaching)
Literature
As a student of literature
Socrates called for the ousting of Homer from schools.
He was convinced that Homeric poetry corrupted the minds of students. 
Teaching Literature as:
Sacred
Scholastic
Social
Primers in early America; Scholes’ exegesis and priests; Graff’s preachers and Billy Phelps; Ohmann’s ideology; convey author/ity, godliness, one-right-reading; catechism as oral written Q&A = Thomists, Blair 
Rhetoric and Belles; Philological and historical;  Committee of 10; New Criticism; University v. Secondary Schools; NCTE & reading lists; Regents exams as current “scholarship”; the splintering of English/departments/clueless
Reader Response & Authorize reading; “feeling”; lingering “art” v. craft of reading; multi culturalism; culture wars; Fish’s save the world
The Illusion of Teaching Literature: 
Students v. Readers
Aliteracy v. Illiteracy 
Illusory Reading v. Allusory Reading
Introduction to the course
In what ways were you both critically and uncritically taught literature?