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Here one of our leading literary scholars looks back on her own life in the classroom, and discovers how much of what sh

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OTHER BOOKS BY JANE TOMPKINS

West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns

A Life in School WHAT THE TEACHER LEARNED

Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism (editor)

Jane Tompkins

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Excerpts from "The Hollow Men," Ash-Wednesday, The Waste umd, and "La Figlia che Piange" in Collected Poems, 1909-1962, byT. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt Brace & Company, copyright 1964, 1963 by T. S. Eliot, reprinted by permission of the pub­ lisher; and in Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot, reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber, Ltd. Excerpt from 'Tm in a Hurry (And [ Don't Know \1/hy)," by Alabama, copyright 1992 Murrah Music Corporation (BMl)/Van Wanner Music (ASCAP)/Sawsong Music (ASCAP) /Partridge Hill Music (ASCAP). International copyright secured. All rights reserved. The following chapters appeared in earlier versions in the following publications: "Postcards from the Edge" in The /ournal ofAdvanced Composition, 1993; "Let's Get Lost" in Confessions of the Critics: North American Critics' Autobiographical Moves (New York: Routledge), 1996; "The Way We Live Now" in Change: A Magazine of Higher Learning, November/December 1992. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tompkins, Jane P. A life in school : what the teacher learned / Jane Tompkins. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 0-201-91212-0 l. Tompkins, Jane P. 2. Teachers-United S 3. Teaching--United States. 4. Education-U methods. I. Title. lA2317.T65A3 1996 --n cf_.! 371.1'0092-dc20

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