Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy
Editor(s): Carole Slade
Pages: xiii & 177 pp.
Published: 1982
ISBN: 9780873524780 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873524773 (hardcover)
"This collection of essays and bibliographies is an immensely valuable volume for the beginning and seasoned teacher alike. One can only wonder why a pedagogical book such as this has not appeared before.... [It] should be on every Dante shelf."
Italica
The contributors to this collection believe that Dante can be enjoyed by college students at every level whether or not they are literature or language majors. Primarily addressing instructors who teach the poem in translation, sixteen scholars suggest a variety of strategies and critical methods that will prove useful and informative to both experienced and novice teachers.
The volume, like others in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, is divided into two parts. The first part, "Materials," reviews commonly taught translations of the Divine Comedy, important reference works, background readings for teachers and students, and classroom aids such as paintings and illustrations. In the second part, "Approaches," an introductory essay by Giovanni Cecchetti identifies nine key themes, ranging from Dante as the new Ulysses and the new Aeneas to Dante as poet and protagonist, that can structure an initial reading of the Divine Comedy. Other contributors take different perspectives including religious, political, and literary; apply several methodologies such as linguistic, typological, and analytical; and compare Dante with major modern authors like Proust and Joyce.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy
PART 1: MATERIALS
Carole Slade
- Editions
- Italian Editions
- Translations: Dual-Language Editions and English Editions
Reference Works
- Reading for Students and Teachers
- General Introductions to Dante
- Background Studies
- Critical Works
- Reception and Influence Studies
- Studies of Individual Canticles
- Collections of Essays
Aids to Teaching
Further Reading on Teaching Dante
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
An Introduction to Dante's Divine Comedy
Giovanni Cecchetti
Philosophies of Teaching and Reading the Divine Comedy
Dante's Divine Comedy: Drama as Teaching
Glauco Cambon
Dante's Unfolding Vision
Richard H. Lansing
On Teaching the Inferno
Wallace Fowlie
Critical Approaches to Teaching the Divine Comedy
Reading the Divine Comedy: A Textual Approach
Christopher Kleinhenz
The Divine Comedy: Texts and Contexts
Rachel Jacoff
An Archetypal Approach to Teaching the Divine Comedy
Gaetano Cipolla
A Comparative Approach to Teaching the Divine Comedy
Marie Giuriceo
Divining the Comedy: Dante and Undergraduates
Philip J. Gallagher
Selected Courses and Units on Dante: Pedagogical Strategies
Paradiso and the Orient in Flint, Michigan
Judith Kollmann
The Purgatorio as a Unit in a Medieval Literature Course
Elizabeth R. Hatcher
Teaching Dante in an Interdisciplinary Context
Theodora Graham
Dante: Gateway to the Humanities
John B. Harcourt
The Divine Comedy as a Map of the Way to Happiness
Sister Mary Clemente Davlin, O.P.
Teaching Dante to Undergraduates at Princeton
Robert Hollander
Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy in Translation
Amilcare A. Iannucci
Works Cited
Index
|
