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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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Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition
In Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition, instructors who have taught Arthurian material in contexts from high school to graduate school draw on their experience to address a range of...
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Editor(s): Maureen Fries, Jeanie Watson
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Approaches to Teaching Beowulf
During recent decades, the study of Beowulf has flourished in liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and high schools. Useful for new instructors as well as medieval scholars, this collection of...
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Editor(s): Jess B. Bessinger, Jr., Robert F. Yeager
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Approaches to Teaching Brontë's Jane Eyre
Taught more frequently than any of Charlotte Brontë's other novels, Jane Eyre presents distinct problems for the contemporary undergraduate instructor, one being the work's sheer length.
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Editor(s): Diane Long Hoeveler, Beth Lau
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Approaches to Teaching Byron's Poetry
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...
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Editor(s): Frederick W. Shilstone
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Approaches to Teaching Camus's The Plague
Thirty-five years ago Germaine Brée wrote that The Plague "is, within its limits, a great novel, the most disturbing, most moving novel yet to have come out of the chaos...
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Editor(s): Steven G. Kellman
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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 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
Long a centerpiece of eighteenth-century literary studies and a significant influence on the fiction of its day, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe remains a standard text for teaching the period and continues...
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Editor(s): Maximillian E. Novak, Carl Fisher
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Approaches to Teaching Dickens's Bleak House
"This splendid volume of essays does more to highlight Dickens's dazzling achievement in Bleak House than any critical intervention I have encountered. I found practices that will translate into my...
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Editor(s): John O. Jordan, Gordon Bigelow
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Approaches to Teaching Dickens' David Copperfield
The novels of Charles Dickens have attracted a wide and enthusiastic readership since they first appeared in the mid-nineteenth century, and in recent decades their social, biographical, and psychological elements...
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Editor(s): Richard J. Dunn
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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 Duras's Ourika
"A treasure trove and a valuable resource for students, teachers, and scholars in a variety of fields." Margaret Waller, French Review "Professors and students in French will particularly want to...
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Editor(s): Mary Ellen Birkett, Christopher Rivers
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Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Middlemarch
Taught to undergraduates in introductory surveys as well as in specialized upper-division courses, Middlemarch presents challenges to both teachers and students--in its length, its rich philosophical and psychological insights, its...
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Editor(s): Kathleen Blake
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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 Goethe's Faust
This volume provides help and encouragement to the teacher of Faust; it contains suggestions by teachers of German literature, Romance literatures, English and American literatures, comparative literature, history, and psychology.
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Editor(s): Douglas J. McMillan
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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 Grass's The Tin Drum
"Indispensible to any teacher preparing to tackle Grass’s challenging novel." Deutsch: Lehren und Lernen The career of Günter Grass began dramatically in 1959, with the publication of his first...
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Editor(s): Monika Shafi
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Approaches to Teaching Joyce's Ulysses
Ulysses is generally recognized as the most influential of all modernist literary texts, and seven decades after its publication the novel continues to fascinate, tease, and engage students.
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Editor(s): Kathleen McCormick, Erwin R. Steinberg
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Approaches to Teaching Keats's Poetry
"Few poets are as congenial to undergraduates as Keats," write the volume editors. But they warn that if the poetry and the life and character of the poet are attractive...
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Editor(s): Walter H. Evert, Jack W. Rhodes
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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 the Metaphysical Poets
Using the now controversial designation metaphysical as a term to be debated or dissected, this book helps teachers with the classroom process of discriminating among the metaphysical and other poems...
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Editor(s): Sidney Gottlieb
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Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost
(First Edition)
Of all Milton's works, Paradise Lost is his supreme and most influential accomplishment, but the scope of the epic, the difficulties in its form, and the strangeness of its contexts...
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Editor(s): Galbraith M. Crump
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Approaches to Teaching Montaigne's Essays
Debated and discussed by countless writers and readers during the last four hundred years, Montaigne's Essays constitutes the first example of a major new literary genre and originates the moralist...
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Editor(s): Patrick Henry
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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 Pope's Poetry
Pope's poetry, the editors of this collection suggest, "provides...an index to social criticism, to enlightened religious belief, to witty and vivacious writing, and to the bearing of much of the...
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Editor(s): Wallace Jackson, R. Paul Yoder
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Approaches to Teaching Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman
"This is a remarkable collection of first-rate essays. The various discourses and approaches—political, sexual, intertexual, cinematic—all bounce off each other well and inform each other." Bruce Williams, William Paterson University...
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Editor(s): Daniel Balderston, Francine Masiello
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Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet
For centuries Hamlet has been a source of inspiration for readers and audiences. The play's characters fascinated Romantic critics from Goethe to Coleridge, its themes interested psychoanalytic theorists from Freud...
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Editor(s): Bernice W. Kliman
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Approaches to Teaching Spenser's Faerie Queene
The epic poem's archaic language, formal structure, historical references, and literary allusions all present special challenges to both student and teacher--challenges that the contributors to this book believe can be...
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Editor(s): David Lee Miller, Alexander Dunlop
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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 Song of Roland
"The depth and breadth of this volume are impressive, as much for the different subjects broached as for the range of specialists who participated in its creation. I particularly appreciate...
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Editor(s): William W. Kibler, Leslie Zarker Morgan
Each book contains a CD featuring performances of the Song of Roland.
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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 Vergil's Aeneid
Vergil's Aeneid has been the most continually read and discussed work by a Roman author in the history of Western literature. Yet it can be a challenging work to teach--Vergil...
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Editor(s): William S. Anderson, Lorina N. Quartarone
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Approaches to Teaching Voltaire's Candide
"Candide is probably the most frequently taught work of French literature," writes Renée Waldinger, yet "students are often misled by the apparent simplicity of the tale."
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Editor(s): Renée Waldinger
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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 Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
"Whether teaching the novel for the first or twentieth time, whether in an undergraduate survey course or a doctoral seminar on Virginia Woolf, teachers will be thrilled to have such...
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Editor(s): Eileen Barrett and Ruth O. Saxton
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Approaches to Teaching Woolf's To the Lighthouse
Many instructors find Woolf's fifth novel her most accessible because it grapples with issues that interest students. The essays in this collection show how teachers can tackle the often threatening...
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Editor(s): Beth Rigel Daugherty, Mary Beth Pringle
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Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry
A central figure of the English Romantic movement and the author of scores of canonical works, William Wordsworth is a mainstay of literature courses ranging from freshmen surveys to upper-level...
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Editor(s): Spencer Hall, Jonathan Ramsey
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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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German Studies in the United States
A Historical Handbook
In the United States, German studies traces its beginnings to the late nineteenth century, when research universities were founded on the German model.
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Editor(s): Peter Uwe Hohendahl
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Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction
First-Year English, Humanities Core Courses, Seminars
"As a demonstration of possible ways to incorporate literature into the writing curriculum, the book does its work well. It provides often vivid examples of ways in which thoughtful and...
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Editor(s): Judith H. Anderson, Christine R. Farris
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Literature as Exploration (5th edition)
Louise Rosenblatt's Literature as Exploration has influenced literary theorists and teachers of literature at all levels. This attractive trade paperback edition features a new foreword by Wayne Booth, a new...
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Author(s): Louise M. Rosenblatt, with a foreword by Wayne Booth
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Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom
Pedagogical Strategies
Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom: Pedagogical Strategies investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom
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Editor(s): Charles J. Stivale
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Remapping the Foreign Language Curriculum
An Approach through Multiple Literacies
Janet Swaffar and Katherine Arens offer a holistic approach to postsecondary language teaching that integrates the study of literature and culture into every level of the curriculum.
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Author(s): Janet Swaffar, Katherine Arens
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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 Children's Literature
The thirteen essays that make up the first part of Teaching Children's Literature highlight issues of canon, pedagogy, genre, and period.
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Editor(s): Glenn Edward Sadler, U. C. Knoepflmacher, consultant ed.
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Teaching Contemporary Theory to Undergraduates
Teaching Contemporary Theory to Undergraduates shows readers how theory can, in the words of William E. Cain, enable teachers and students "to illuminate anew the structure of texts, to write...
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Editor(s): Dianne F. Sadoff, William E. Cain
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Teaching Early Modern English Prose
"This volume is full of wonderful, promising, intriguing suggestions, which I will gladly borrow for my own teaching." Debora Shuger, University of California, Los Angeles "It is hard to imagine...
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Editor(s): Susannah Brietz Monta, Margaret W. Ferguson
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Teaching Film
“An invaluable resource not only for those new to teaching film but for those of us who have been working in the discipline for a long time and have grappled...
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Editor(s): Lucy Fischer, Patrice Petro
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Teaching Law and Literature
"Students in undergraduate humanities courses will benefit from studying the way legal realities help shape and inform literary works. Law teachers may usefully assign chapters from the text to explore...
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Editor(s): Austin Sarat, Cathrine O. Frank, Matthew Anderson
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Teaching Life Writing Texts
"Howes and Fuchs have spanned a remarkable breadth in terms of where their writers come from, the sorts of schools they teach in, and the life writing issues on which...
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Editor(s): Miriam Fuchs, Craig Howes
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Teaching Literature and Language Online
"Technology has progressed from what some might have thought was a passing fad to occupy center stage in many English and foreign language departments. This is a very rich set...
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Editor(s): Ian Lancashire
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Teaching Literature and Medicine
Courses in literature and medicine flourish in undergraduate, medical school, and continuing-education programs throughout the United States and Canada. This volume presents a variety of approaches to the subject.
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Editor(s): Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
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Teaching Literature and Other Arts
Focusing primarily on undergraduate teaching, this collection of eighteen pioneering essays describes courses interweaving literature with music and the visual arts. Each essay is supplemented by a syllabus of the...
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Editor(s): Jean-Pierre Barricelli, Joseph Gibaldi, Estella Lauter
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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 Oral Traditions
Research is beginning to unearth the astounding wealth of oral traditions that have served as a vital cultural activity and verbal art for peoples throughout the world, from antiquity to...
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Editor(s): John Miles Foley
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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 Shakespeare through Performance
Teaching Shakespeare through Performance is designed for teachers of both high school and college English courses who wish to introduce performance strategies into their classroom.
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Editor(s): Milla Cozart Riggio
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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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Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers
Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers summarizes the latest scholarship on British women writers who lived from roughly 1500 to 1700 and suggests strategies for presenting their works in the...
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Editor(s): Susanne Woods, Margaret P. Hannay
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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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Teaching World Literature
"This book should be very helpful for anyone teaching literature that crosses regional, cultural or historical boundaries and who wants to take the issues inevitably involved in such breadth seriously."...
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Editor(s): David Damrosch
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Teaching Narrative Theory
"Simply one of the most coherent and engaging academic books I’ve read in a good while." Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa The last two decades have seen a burst...
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Editor(s): David Herman, Brian McHale, James Phelan
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