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Knapp, John Victor was born on May 3, 1940 in Syracuse, New York, United States.
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Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and Literary Criticism (Hardback) - Common
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This book uses a trio of contemporary psychological paradigms (family systems, subject/object differentiation and depression, and personality theory) to discuss six works of fiction.
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Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and Literary Criticism
(This book uses a trio of contemporary psychological parad...)
This book uses a trio of contemporary psychological paradigms (family systems, subject/object differentiation and depression, and personality theory) to discuss six works of fiction. The authors of the texts being analyzed are John Fowles, D.H. Lawrence, George Orwell, Robert Pirsig, Henry Roth, and John Steinbeck. The author employs these three psychological approaches in order to gain further insight into the psychological literary criticisms of these major works. Students and scholars of both psychology and literature will find this a useful work. Contents: Psychology, Literary Theory, and Character: An Introduction; Literature and Psychology: Synergistic Transaction or Solitary Confinement?; Family Systems in Literature: D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Henry Roth's Call it Sleep; Scientific Personality in American Literature; Depression, Life-Span Development and Fiction: Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying and John Fowles's The Mangus; Teaching Literature and Psychology in an Interdisciplinary Context; Conclusion; References.
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Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise
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Although teaching is perhaps the central public activity of most university English professors, one finds surprisingly little research in the specifics of expert professorial practice that are not either the end products of successful teaching, or the conflation of expertise in the subject matter with pedagogical expertise. This case study describes the moves an expert professor makes in a semester-long process, of teaching a literature far removed from most undergraduates' experiences in a day-to-day study of an advanced undergraduate course in the writings of John Milton.Employing a "situated learning" model to help explain the incremental growth of students' knowledge and critical skills, Dr. Knapp details how an expert professor teaches complex literary works to undergraduates with no previous exposure to an author's writings. Generalizing from this process, the author describes the particulars of literary learning and student development from scant knowledge about an author or historical period to their growing mastery by the semester's end.
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John Victor Knapp
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John Victor Knapp, American English educator. Licensed teacher, New York. Recipient grants National Endowment of the Humanities, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1977, Illinois Humanities Council, Dekalb, 1984. Member Association Literary Scholar Critics, American Psychological Association, Modern Language Association, National Council Teachers of English.
Education
Bachelor of Science in English Education, State University of New York, Cortland, 1963. Master of Science in Literature, State University of New York, Cortland, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy in Literature, University Illinois, 1971.
Doctor of Philosophy in Education Psychology, University Wisconsin, Madison, 2000.
Career
Teacher of English, Chittenango (New York) City High School, 1963-1966; teaching assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1966-1971; assistant professor of English, Northern Illinois U., Dekalb, 1971-1979; associate professor of English., Northern Illinois U., Dekalb, since 1979; associate editor, STYLE, Dekalb, Illinois, 1985-1989; co-editor, STYLE, Dekalb, Illinois, 1989-1991. Coordinator English education department Northern Illinois U., 1984-1989, Conference on George Orwell, Dekalb, 1984. Consultant National Center on Effective Secondary Schools, Madison, 1986-1989.
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Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise
(Although teaching is perhaps the central public activity ...)
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Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and Literary Criticism (Hardback) - Common
(This book uses a trio of contemporary psychological parad...)
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Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and Literary Criticism
(This book uses a trio of contemporary psychological parad...)
- Learning from scant beginnings; English professor expertise.
- (Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and Literary Criticism) Author: John V. Knapp published on (May, 1996)
- (Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and Literary Criticism) Author: John V. Knapp published on (June, 1996)
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Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise
Membership
Member Association Literary Scholar Critics, American Psychological Association, Modern Language Association, National Council Teachers of English.
Connections
Son of Victor and Ann Helen (Ksienievich) K. Divorced; married Joan I. Schwarz, August 14, 1977. Children: Margaret A., Lara M. Knapp-Cantuti, Joanna E. Haskin, Jennifer J. Knapp-Schwarz.
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