English in Its Postmodern Circumstances: Reading, Writing, and Goggle Roving.

operate from within theory and practice and allow full participation in the redefinition of our relations with texts, with students, and with the subject of English itself. Without such a tradition, the vocabulary of new French critical theory will only increase the authority of those who are driving academic discourse at the college and university levels, leaving those of us who teach secondary English in a state that Peter Elbow calls "bamboozlement" (1986). Writing in "Pedagogy of the Bamboozled," Elbow suggests that we bamboozle our students and ourselves when we can't live up to what our role models think we should offer students. Although Elbow restricts his comments to role models of the