Approaches to Teaching Keats's Poetry
Editor(s): Walter H. Evert, Jack W. Rhodes
Pages: xi & 162 pp.
Published: 1991
ISBN: 9780873525435
"[The volume takes] the pulse of literary education at the same time as it exhibits the state of Keats studies."
Keats-Shelley Journal
"A genuinely useful teaching aid and a valuable anthology of thoughtful criticism."
Romantic Movement
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"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 and accessible, there is more to Keats than at first meets the eye.
This volume, like others in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, is divided into two parts. The first, "Materials," reviews works on Romanticism and on Keats, editions of Keats, critical studies, various other reference materials, and audiovisual resources. It also gives reading lists for students, the poems most frequently taught, sample assignments, and a subject index of the poet's letters. The second part, "Approaches," contains sixteen essays gathered into three groups: classroom strategies, to help students interact with the poems; theoretical approaches, which all have a practical classroom dimension; and thematic orientations, including myths, death, images of women, and the problem of imagination. "If there is any single characteristic that mediates the diversity of these essays," write Walter Evert and Jack Rhodes, "it is clearly the abhorrence of interpretive closure in teaching." The collection attempts to present a balanced spectrum of the ways that Keats is taught.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Keats's Poetry
PART 1: MATERIALS
Jack W. Rhodes
Brief Handlist
Texts
Biographies
Readings in Romanticism
General Background and Reference Works
Audiovisual Resources
Reading List for Students
Keats's Works Assigned
Subject Index of Keats's Letters
Papers and Other Assignments
PART 2: APPROACHES
Edited by Walter H. Evert
Introduction
Classroom Strategies
The Question of Porphyro's Stratagem
Leon Waldoff
Discovering "La Belle Dame sans Merci"
John E. Grant
Student "Experts" Teaching Keats's Odes
Frank Jordan
Keats with a Lifetime Warranty
Brian Wilkie
Keatsian Turns: Diagraming Metaphor and Empathy
Bruce Clarke
Keats's Politics of Truth
Lore Metzger
Theoretical Approaches
Teaching Keats from the Standpoint of a Deconstructive Phenomenology
Tilottama Rajan
Keats's "Gordian Complication" of Women
Susan J. Wolfson
Keats and the Visual Arts
Nicholas O. Warner
Writing on "Isabella" from the Perspective of Composition Theory
Louise Z. Smith
Re(:)reading Keats
Donald C. Goellnicht
Thematic Orientations
Relating Keats's Myth-Oriented Poems to Their Sources
Wolf Z. Hirst
The Envisioning of Women: From Endymion to the Later Romances
Nancy Moore Goslee
Keats and the Music of Mortality
Ronald A. Sharp
Romance to Ode: Love's Dream and the Conflicted Imagination
Jean Hall
Reading and Ravishing: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Peter J. Manning
Works Cited and Recommended
Books and Articles
Recordings
Index of Names
Index of Poems by Keats
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