1st Edition

The Mythopoetics of Currere Memories, Dreams, and Literary Texts as Teaching Avenues to Self-Study

By Mary Aswell Doll Copyright 2017
    166 Pages
    by Routledge

    166 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.