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African American Literature Collection
The African American Literature Collection contains five Approaches to Teaching volumes (click on each title to get book information). MLA members receive a 20% discount on Approaches collections. |
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Afro-American Literature
The Reconstruction of Instruction
This book is devoted exclusively to critical discussions of Afro-American literature and focuses specifically on critical issues that are especially pertinent to designing courses in Afro-American literature.
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Editor(s): Dexter Fisher, Robert B. Stepto
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American Indian Literatures
American Indian Literatures is a thorough guide to the genres and major authors of both oral and written literatures and to scholarship in the field.
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Author(s): A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
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Approaches to Teaching Cather's My Ántonia
Unlike many other great works of English literature, My Ántonia is immediately accessible to today's students. "Cather's novel is so clear," Susan J. Rosowski says, "so apparently effortless, that it...
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Editor(s): Susan J. Rosowski
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Approaches to Teaching Chopin's The Awakening
An MLA survey taken in preparation for this volume indicates that teachers are using The Awakening in no fewer than twenty areas of the college curriculum--from freshman writing and textual...
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Editor(s): Bernard Koloski
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Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise
"I believe that this collection of essays will be of great value to instructors of White Noise. The essays in the volume are lively, accessible, opinionated (in a good sense),...
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Editor(s): Tim Engles, John N. Duvall
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Approaches to Teaching Dickinson's Poetry
The life and the range of topics and tones of Emily Dickinson suit her to be included in such courses as American literature, Romanticism, realism, nineteenth-century culture, and women's literary...
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Editor(s): Robin Riley Fast, Christine Mack Gordon
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Approaches to Teaching Ellison's Invisible Man
Teachers of Invisible Man differ about which aspect of Ralph Ellison's novel deserves the most emphasis. According to Susan Resneck Parr, a coeditor of this volume, "some [teachers] argue that...
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Editor(s): Susan Resneck Parr, Pancho Savery
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich
This volume seeks to enrich teachers--and students--understanding of the fictional world Louise Erdrich creates and to address the challenges of teaching her novels and poetry.
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Editor(s): Greg Sarris, Connie A. Jacobs, James R. Giles
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Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
"Approaches to Teaching Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby offers instructors a resource they did not have before—a comprehensive guidebook with materials and approaches for more scholarly instruction." F. Scott Fitzgerald Review...
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Editor(s): Jackson R. Bryer, Nancy P. VanArsdale
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Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction
The British and American Traditions
Recent decades have seen a revival of scholarly interest in Gothic fiction. Critics are attracted to the genre's exploration of irrationality, to its dark representation of the bourgeois family and...
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Editor(s): Diane Long Hoeveler, Tamar Heller
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Approaches to Teaching Melville's Moby-Dick
Pondering the physical and metaphysical implications of the whale's circulatory system, the narrator of Moby-Dick says, "But how easy and how hopeless to teach these fine things!"
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Editor(s): Martin Bickman
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Approaches to Teaching Nabokov's Lolita
"Professors Kuzmanovich and Diment have compiled a volume that can only improve the teaching of Nabokov’s best-known work." Slavic and East European Journal "The volume provides a wide array of...
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Editor(s): Zoran Kuzmanovich, Galya Diment
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Approaches to Teaching Poe's Prose and Poetry
"The essays provide practical activities that can be readily attempted by teachers who are open to a variety of pedagogical techniques—and who have been frustrated by students' preconceptions concerning Poe."...
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Editor(s): Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Tony Magistrale
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Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Although rarely found on college syllabi just two decades ago, Uncle Tom's Cabin is (according to an MLA survey) one of the most frequently named additions to nineteenth-century American literature...
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Editor(s): Elizabeth Ammons, Susan Belasco
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O’Brien
"This new Approaches collection is both for aficionados of Tim O’Brien (and Vietnam literature) and for those with somewhat broader literary interests. I have nothing but glowing praise for its...
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Editor(s): Alex Vernon, Catherine Calloway
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Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night
"Rosen's collection is a valuable source for teachers, providing multiple perspectives and insight into the many levels of interpretation of a seminal Holocaust memoir." S. Lillian Kremer, author, Women's Holocaust...
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Editor(s): Alan Rosen
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Approaches to Teaching Wright's Native Son
Richard Wright predicted that Bigger Thomas, his most powerful literary creation, would become "a symbolic figure of American life, a figure who would hold within him the prophecy of our...
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Editor(s): James A. Miller
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The Female Bildungsroman in English
An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism
Fuderer's introductory essay traces the academic discussion of the topic from the early 1970s to the present; the bibliography lists 133 books, articles, and dissertations that deal either with the...
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Author(s): Laura Sue Fuderer
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Literary Research Guide
An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies
(Fifth Edition)
Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 by Choice and as one of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the...
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Author(s): James L. Harner
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Nineteenth-Century American Literature Collection
The Nineteenth-Century American Literature Collection contains seven Approaches to Teaching volumes (click on each title to get book information). MLA members receive a 20% discount on Approaches collections. |
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Professions of Desire
Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature
Professions of Desire includes examples of lesbian and gay literary analysis and thoughtful discussions about what it means to be lesbian, gay, or queer in the literature classroom.
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Editor(s): George E. Haggerty, Bonnie Zimmerman
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Redefining American Literary History
Redefining American Literary History presents seventeen essays and six bibliographies linked, in the words of the introduction, by "a commitment to deal with history and attributes of literature in ways...
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Editor(s): A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
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Redrawing the Boundaries
The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies
In this collection of essays, twenty-four leading scholars examine the major developments that have expanded the horizons of English and American literary studies during recent decades.
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Editor(s): Stephen Greenblatt, Giles Gunn
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A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature
An informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to Asian American Literature offers background materials for the study of this expanding discipline and suggests strategies and ideas...
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Editor(s): Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, Stephen H. Sumida
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Studies in American Indian Literature
"An excellent literary survey and resource book for instructors interested in developing college-level courses on American Indians." Explorations in Sights and Sounds "The result of careful and informed research, this...
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Editor(s): Paula Gunn Allen
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Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
"This volume argues very powerfully that nineteenth-century American poetry encompasses much more than Whitman and Dickinson. This is an indispensable book and will be useful to both new and experienced...
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Editor(s): Paula Bernat Bennett, Karen L. Kilcup, Philipp Schwieghauser
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Teaching North American Environmental Literature
(Options for Teaching 22)
"More than a study of nature writing, this collection of essays examines the influences that have shaped the field, such as African American, American Indian, Canadian, and Chicano literature." Book...
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Editor(s): Laird Christensen, Mark C. Long, Fred Waage
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Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust
"Can the story be told?" Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust.
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Editor(s): Marianne Hirsch, Irene Kacandes
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Teaching the Literatures of Early America
In this era of shifting geopolitical boundaries, numerous books and articles question what "American" literature is, what "the literary" is, and how what is called early American literature can best...
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Editor(s): Carla Mulford
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Teaching Women's Literature from a Regional Perspective
This collection of essays and materials aims to help teachers design courses in which students use out-of-print books, autobiographies, letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral testimonies by the women of their...
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Editor(s): Leonore Hoffmann, Deborah Rosenfelt
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Three American Literatures
This well-chosen selection contributes to our understanding of the psychological and cultural complexities of these minority groups and helps us, as Baker suggests, 'arrive at a [more] just assessment of...
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Editor(s): Houston A. Baker, Jr.
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The Transcendentalists
A Review of Research and Criticism
Essential for any collection of Americana, this volume is the first and only comprehensive bibliography of works on the Transcendentalists of the nineteenth century and their major contemporary critics.
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Editor(s): Joel Myerson
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Women's Personal Narratives
Essays in Criticism and Pedagogy
Using autobiographical sources such as letters, diaries, and oral testimonies, the contributors to this volume suggest possibilities for approaching these materials as literature and introducing them into the classroom.
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Editor(s): Leonore Hoffmann, Margo Culley
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Asian American Literature
"A useful addition to libraries seeking to provide access for students and scholars to the full cultural diversity of the US."
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Compiler(s): King-Kok Cheung, Stan Yogi
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