The Gardens of Desire
(June 2004)
Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime Stephen Gilbert Brown - Author
Offers a psychocritical reading of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past).
The Gardens of Desire is at once a model of literary interpretation and a groundbreaking psychocritical reading of a literary masterpiece, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). Shedding new light on the origins of the creative impulse in general, and ...(Read More)
Ethnography Unbound
(February 2004)
From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis Stephen Gilbert Brown - Editor Sidney I. Dobrin - Editor
Problematizes traditional ethnographic research methods, offering instead self-reflexive critical practices.
These provocative new essays redefine the goals, methods, and assumptions of qualitative and ethnographic research in composition studies, making evident not only the crucial importance of ethnographic research, but also its resilience. As Ethnography Unbound makes evident, critical ethnographers are ret...(Read More)
Words in the Wilderness
(January 2000)
Critical Literacy in the Borderlands Stephen Gilbert Brown - Author Gary A. Olson - Foreword by
2001 W. Ross Winterowd Award, Best book in composition theory presented by JAC and the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition Blends vivid personal accounts and sophisticated theoretical analysis to make a compelling book about one teacher's experience teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska. Using the author's intensely personal, reflective, provocative account of his time teaching on an Athabascan ...(Read More)