1st Edition
The Mythopoetics of Currere Memories, Dreams, and Literary Texts as Teaching Avenues to Self-Study
In The Mythopoetics of Currere, Doll uses depth psychology, myth, and literature to offer a new approach to currere, the root of curriculum, through essays exploring significant literary images that open doorways into the fictions that layer the self. Offering a focus on the body, queer love, false belief, strangeness, otherness, and chaos, this book suggests new metaphors for understanding why currere is what matters most in curriculum.
Introduction: The Remembered Self
Section One: Dreams and the Curriculum of the Remembered Self
Chapter One: Memory and Currere
Chapter Two: Planting: For Bill
Chapter Three: My Brother: Duncan/Bill
Chapter Four: My Mother, the Editor, Mary Louise Aswell
Chapter Five: My Father, the Editor, Edward Campbell Aswell
Chapter Six: Memory Slides
Chapter Seven: Dreams: The Coursings from Within
Chapter Eight: Beyond the Window: The Inscape of Currere
Section Two: The Mythopoetics of Currere in Literary Texts
Chapter Nine: Curriculum as the Fictions that Layer the Self
Chapter Ten: I am Dirt: Disturbing the Genesis of Western Hegemony
Chapter Eleven: Writers in the Mythic Mode: Shattering the Stillness
Chapter Twelve: What Nature Allows: Queer Love
Chapter Thirteen: The Body of Knowledge
Chapter Fourteen: The Butterfly Effect: Chaos and the Fictions of Identity
Chapter Fifteen: Capacity and Currere
Chapter Sixteen: The Poetics of Elsewhere
Chapter Seventeen: Beyond the Pale of Female Subjectivity
Chapter Eighteen: Crone in the Classroom
Chapter Nineteen: Before the Wave: Goddess Authority
Chapter Twenty: The Mythopoetics of Currere
Biography
Mary Aswell Doll is Professor of English in the Liberal Arts Department at Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah Georgia, USA.