Approaches to Teaching Byron's Poetry
Editor(s): Frederick W. Shilstone
Pages: x & 193 pp.
Published: 1991
ISBN: 9780873525459
"This skillfully edited book is highly recommended for college teachers of English literature.... The essays include excellent pieces by scholars of the first rank."
Keats-Shelley Journal
"A useful companion for teaching Byron with a very large number of contributions by divers hands."
Nineteenth-Century Literature
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As the volume editor, Frederick W. Shilstone, explains in his preface, this book originated in hallways, at conferences, and in classrooms, with colleagues and students "who share my enthusiasm for Byron yet consider his works, especially when taught in survey courses, problematic." Aimed at instructors teaching Byron for the first time as well as those more experienced who wish to explore new methods of presentation, this volume attempts to keep classroom discussion lively and engaging.
Like other books in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, this one is divided into two parts. The first part, "Materials," evaluates editions and anthologies, bibliographies, scholarly studies, teaching aids, films, videos, and musical performances. The second part, "Approaches," gathers twenty-three essays by instructors with extensive experience in teaching Byron. Using a wide range of critical strategies, the contributors explore philosophical, textual, biographical, social, historical, and aesthetic issues in Byron's poetry. The essays also confront problems that complicate the teaching of Byron--the poet's use of various poetic guises, his personal intrusions into the poems, and the question of Byron's place among his contemporaries. The collection focuses on the works most frequently taught in undergraduate courses and includes six essays devoted to Don Juan.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Byron's Poetry
PART 1: MATERIALS
Frederick W. Shilstone
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Editions
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Teaching Editions: Selections, Don Juan, and Complete Works
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Anthologies
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Standard Editions
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Readings for Students and Teachers
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Bibliographic and Reference Readings
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Fundamental Student Readings
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Specialized Readings for Teachers
Teaching Aids
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Backgrounds, Pedagogical Trends, and Contexts
Teaching Byron in a Romantic Context
G. K. Blank
Teaching Byron in Relation to the Visual Arts
Nicholas O. Warner
Using a Reader's Journal to Teach Byron's Poetry
Mark Reynolds
Byron's Bisexuality: The Biographical Evidence and the Poems
Louis Crompton
Poetic Performance: Byron and the Concept of a Male Muse
Joanna E. Rapf
Julian, Maddalo, and the Madman: Byron on Civilization and Its Discontents
Mark Kipperman
Teaching Byron's Poetic Techniques by Game Playing
David V. Erdman
Byron's Poetry: Sound Effects
Brian Wilkie
The Satires, "Romantic" Poems, and Plays
Teaching Satire in English Bards and The Vision of Judgment
Frederick L. Beaty
The Giaour: The Infidelity of the Romantic Fragment
Scott Simpkins
A Historical Approach to the Eastern Tales: The Case of Parisina
Daniel P. Watkins
Byron's Poetic Journal: Teaching Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Bernard A. Hirsch
Pilgrimage to Creation: Byron in Iberia
Gordon K. Thomas
Byron's "Darkness" and the Romantic Dis-Spiriting of Nature
Ronald A. Schroeder
Manfred and Skepticism
Stephen C. Behrendt
Teaching Manfred as Mental Theater
Alan Richardson
Contexts of Eden in Don Juan and the Mysteries
Wolf Z. Hirst
Don Juan
The Paradoxical Unity of Don Juan: Hero, Narrator, World
Katherine Kernberger
Teaching Don Juan from the Perspective of Cross-Dressing and the Politics of Gender
Susan Wolfson
"A plain man, and in a single station": Byronic Self-Representation in Don Juan
Peter J. Manning
Byron's London
John Clubbe
Re-Reading (in) Byron: Intertextuality in Don Juan
Paul Elledge
Don Juan: From Classic to Modern
Hermione de Almeida
Works Cited
Index of Names
Index of Works by Byron
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