Tracing My Formative Literary Experience: An Examination of the High School Canon through To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye

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Author
Knox, Nora
Keyword
First Reader Lee A. Schlesinger
Senior Project
Semester Spring 2020
Readers/Advisors
Schlesinger, Lee A.
Term and Year
Spring 2020
Date Published
2020

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/13442
Abstract
An investigation the origins of the contemporary high school canon using personal experiences and anecdotes, historical data, and literary analysis. Using To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye as prime examples, this paper examines the literary elements that make these and other novels effective classroom material. Additionally, this paper looks at the peripheral effects of teaching the two novels across such wide and impressionable audience, including their history with censorship and their role in a diversifying curriculum.
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