ABSTRACT

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.

section one|44 pages

Dreams and the Curriculum of the Remembered Self

chapter 1|6 pages

Memory and Currere 1

chapter 2|2 pages

Planting

For Bill

chapter 3|6 pages

My Brother

Duncan/Bill

chapter 4|8 pages

My Mother, the Editor, Mary Louise Aswell

chapter 6|4 pages

Memory Slides

chapter 7|4 pages

Dreams

The Coursings from Within

chapter 8|7 pages

Beyond the Window

The Inscape of Currere 1

section two|100 pages

The Mythopoetics of Currere in Literary Texts

chapter 10|10 pages

I am Dirt

Disturbing the Genesis of Western Hegemony

chapter 11|7 pages

Writers in the Mythic Mode

Shattering the Stillness 1

chapter 12|6 pages

What Nature Allows

Queer Love

chapter 13|7 pages

The Body of Knowledge

chapter 14|10 pages

The Butterfly Effect

Chaos and the Fictions of Identity

chapter 15|7 pages

Capacity and Currere 1

chapter 16|7 pages

The Poetics of Elsewhere 1

chapter 17|10 pages

Beyond the Pale of Female Subjectivity

Medea and Anne

chapter 18|12 pages

Crone in the Classroom

chapter 19|6 pages

Before the Wave 1

Goddess Authority

chapter 20|7 pages

The Mythopoetics of Currere