Pedagogic Criticism; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; Notes; 2 Heroic Reading; Shadow Lines; The Terrors of Literacy; Ambassadors of Poetry; A Series of Shocks to the Reader's Preconceptions; Gerty MacDowell; Notes; 3 Turning the Screw of Criticism; Proper Interpretation; The Lesson of the Master; A Fountain of Gloom and a Portent of Woe; Notes; 4 Imaginary Burglars: English Studies and the Hinterlands of Thought; The Knowledge of Our Buried Life; Out of the Groove; Minds Rich in Insight; Notes; 5 The Hidden Aesthetic of English Teaching; Unheard Melodies

The Real Work Before the TeacherImagined English; Notes; 6 Pilgrims and Progression; Mourning the Nation; Narratives of Learning; Digressive Walking; Notes; 7 Fragments and Ruins: Teaching in the Shadow of Catastrophe; Some Latter-Day Stranger; English in Adult Education: The 1980s; Down in the Dumps; Theory's Childhood; Mr Punch and the Connexion Man; Notes; 8 Getting Close: Masculinities in Literary Pedagogy; Bad Dirt; It Aint No Way for a Man to Be: Anxious Masculinities; Cutting Fence; The Tent and the Classroom; Notes; 9 Writing as Teachers; Literary Practice

Writing as Pedagogic KnowledgeTranslation in Context: Kazimierz Dolny, April 2008; Notes; 10 Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index