Approaches to Teaching Stendhal's The Red and the Black
Editor(s): Dean de la Motte, Stirling Haig
Pages: xii & 189 pp.
Published: 1999
ISBN: 9780873527484 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873527477 (hardcover)
"The book is a valuable teaching tool and a pleasure to read as well. It contains a wealth of information and a variety of critical approaches conveniently gathered in a single source that normally would have to be extracted from many scattered documents....[This] book provides a solid overview of the problems and pleasures related to reading Stendhal's novel."
Rocky Mountain Review
"A novel is a mirror moving along a highway," writes Stendhal in The Red and the Black, his chronicle of French Restoration politics, class, and society on the eve of the July Revolution of 1830. "One minute you see it reflect the azure skies, next minute the mud and puddles on the road." Stendhal's defense of his work and the widely taught novel in which it appears set forth two problematic topics for students: literary realism (and its limitations) and the presentation of history in literature. The editors of this volume focus on how best to address these questions in courses on French literature, world literature, European intellectual history, comparative literature, and more.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Stendhal's The Red and the Black
PART 1: MATERIALS
Dean de la Motte and Stirling Haig
- Editions and Translations
- French Editions
- English Editions
- Courses and Course Designs
- Recommended Readings
- Background Materials
- General Introductions
- The Instructor's Library
- Visual and Multimedia Aids
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Contextualizing The Red and the Black
History in The Red and the Black
James Smith Allen
The Specters of Revolution; or, Politics at the Concert
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
Secret Notes and Pistol Shots
Peter Brooks
A Romantic Approach to The Red and the Black
Mary Ellen Birkett
Strategies of Reading
Reading Appearances: The Opening Chapters of The Red and the Black
Catharine Savage Brosman
A Story of Reading and Writing; or, The Poetics of Self-Reference
James T. Day
How Julien Loses His Head; or, Stendhal and the Politics of the Imaginary
Juliet Flower MacCannell
The Crystallization of Love
Mary Anne O'Neil
Formal Approaches
A Narratological Approach to The Red and the Black
Gerald Prince
On Not "Yielding a Return": Plot and the Concept of Freedom in The Red and the Black
Michal Peled Ginsburg
Approaching a Major Novel through Its Minor Characters
Pauline Wald Willis
Questions of Gender and Class Identity in The Red and the Black
Contextualizing the Canon: New Perspectives on The Red and the Black
Doris Y. Kadish
Julienned Identities
Sandy Petrey
The Quest for the Mother: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Reading of The Red and the Black
Lisa G. Algazi
Sacred Hearts and Stolen Smarts: Rewriting French Noblewomen in The Red and the Black
Cheryl A. Morgan
The Red and the Black: Transforming the Maternal Myth
Maryline Lukacher
Technology, Pedagogy, and Interpretive Paradigms
Stendhal in Cyberspace: Virtual Reading as Oppositional Practice
Anthony Purdy
O Twenty-First Century! Using Technology to Teach The Red and the Black
Carol de Dobay Rifelj
Works Cited
Index of Names
Index of Works (Literature, Painting, and Music)
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