The Mythopoetics of Currere Memories, Dreams, and Literary Texts as Teaching Avenues to Self-Study Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

In The Mythopoetics of Currere, Doll uses depth psychology, myth, and literature to offer a new approach to currere, the root of curriculum, through essays exploring significant literary images that open doorways into the fictions that layer the self. Offering a focus on the body, queer love, false belief, strangeness, otherness, and chaos, this book suggests new metaphors for understanding why currere is what matters most in curriculum.

Introduction: The Remembered Self

Section One: Dreams and the Curriculum of the Remembered Self

Chapter One: Memory and Currere

Chapter Two: Planting: For Bill

Chapter Three: My Brother: Duncan/Bill

Chapter Four: My Mother, the Editor, Mary Louise Aswell

Chapter Five: My Father, the Editor, Edward Campbell Aswell

Chapter Six: Memory Slides

Chapter Seven: Dreams: The Coursings from Within

Chapter Eight: Beyond the Window: The Inscape of Currere

Section Two: The Mythopoetics of Currere in Literary Texts

Chapter Nine: Curriculum as the Fictions that Layer the Self

Chapter Ten: I am Dirt: Disturbing the Genesis of Western Hegemony

Chapter Eleven: Writers in the Mythic Mode: Shattering the Stillness

Chapter Twelve: What Nature Allows: Queer Love

Chapter Thirteen: The Body of Knowledge

Chapter Fourteen: The Butterfly Effect: Chaos and the Fictions of Identity

Chapter Fifteen: Capacity and Currere

Chapter Sixteen: The Poetics of Elsewhere

Chapter Seventeen: Beyond the Pale of Female Subjectivity

Chapter Eighteen: Crone in the Classroom

Chapter Nineteen: Before the Wave: Goddess Authority

Chapter Twenty: The Mythopoetics of Currere

Mary Aswell Doll is Professor of English in the Liberal Arts Department at Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah Georgia, USA.