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This Is Importance

by Gregory Betts
June 1, 2013 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781894987752
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Description

Poet, novelist and teacher Gregory Betts has an ear for a well-turned phrase and an eye for captivating errors. In this highly amusing collection, Betts has pulled together some of the best misinterpretations of literature that he has come across in his years of grading papers. With an introduction on the importance of learning through error in education and a full complement of confusions on authors, styles and the point of reading literature, this book will delight English teachers everywhere.

Humor / Form / Parodies Education Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About this Author

Gregory Betts is an award-winning author, editor and professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. He has been teaching literature for a dozen years now at four different universities in Canada and Germany. He has published five books of poetry, edited five books of experimental Canadian writing, and recently published Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies and Graduate Program Director of Canadian and American Studies at Brock.

ISBN: 9781894987752
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 72
Publisher: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd
Published: 2013-06-01

Reviews

"As a reader, one can approach these lines with absolute delight, perhaps the entire opposite effect the same lines would have on a professor of literature discovering the same within a paper by one of their students." - DUSIE

"A collection of some of the most hilarious phrases that Betts came across while marking his students? papers.... My favourite academic insight was ?the alphabet has been a major influence on many poets." - Town Crier

"[Betts] aligns error with the poetic imagination, and in his selections Betts emphasizes errors in language that produce strange, brilliant, unintentional wordplay, with accidentally clever insights that are often laugh-out-loud funny." - This

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