The book's basic thesis is that learning, like living, is comedic. Comedy instructs through metaphor - seeing likeness between opposites - and in reading everything as text. The book thereby revisions education as Comedy. It suggests that the subjects of all assignments must connect with the subjective reader. Accordingly, it includes student writings, personal memoirs, dreams, poems, myths, journals, and artwork - as well as critiques of mainstream writing and teaching. From classwork with Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor, assignments are offered to prod students into awareness of their deeper selves, their others, nature, and the divine.

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The Author: Mary Aswell Doll is Professor of English at Our Lady of Holy Cross College in New Orleans. She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies at Syracuse University. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, she wrote Beckett and Myth: An Archetypal Approach and co-edited In the Shadow of the Giant: Thomas Wolfe.