Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Rethinking the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism -- 2 Chances of Being Kind: Rorty, Irony, and Teaching Modern Literature -- 3 The Political Responsibility of the Teaching of Literatures -- 4 Literacy and Literature: Making or Consuming Culture? -- 5 (Post)modern Critical Theory and the Articulations of Critical Pedagogies -- 6 The Politics of Teaching Literature: The "Paedagogical Effect" -- 7 Discipline and Resistance: The Subjects of Writing and the Discourses of Instruction -- 8 Subversion and Oppositionality in the Academy -- 9 Entitlement and Empowerment: Claims on Canonicity -- 10 Canon: New Testament to Derrida -- 11 Freud, Lacan, and the Subject of Cultural Studies -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.