Teaching World Literature

2009
Teaching World Literature

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  • Author: David Damrosch
  • Publisher: Options for Teaching
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 456

This is an exciting, and unsettling, time to be teaching world literature, writes David Damrosch. Because the range of works taught in world literature courses has expanded enormously, both historically and geographically, the task of selection—and of teacher preparation—has grown more challenging. Teachers of this field must grapple with such issues as coverage, cultural difference, and the role of translation in the classroom. Should one emphasize masterpieces or traditions, concepts or themes? How does one avoid making a work bear the burden of representing an entire tradition? To what extent should anthologies be used? Can a course be global in scope and yet focus on a few works, authors, moments? This collection of thirty-two essays in the MLA series Options for Teaching offers an array of solutions to these challenges, reflecting the wide variety of institutions, courses, and students described by the contributors. An annotated bibliography is provided, with a listing of useful Web sites.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh

2019-05-01
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh

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  • Author: Gaurav Desai
  • Publisher: Modern Language Association
  • ISBN: 1603293981
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 179

The prizewinning author of novels, nonfiction, and hybrid texts, Amitav Ghosh grew up in India and trained as an anthropologist. His works have been translated into over thirty languages. They cross and mix a number of genres, from science fiction to the historical novel, incorporating ethnohistory and travelogue and even recuperating dead languages. His subjects include climate change, postcolonial identities, translocation, migration, oceanic spaces, and the human interface with the environment. Part 1 of this volume discusses editions of Ghosh's works and the scholarship on Ghosh. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," present ideas for teaching his works through considerations of postcolonial feminism, historicity in the novels, environmentalism, language, sociopolitical conflict, genre, intersectional reading, and the ethics of colonized subjecthood. Guidance for teaching Ghosh in different contexts, such as general education, world literature, or single-author classes, is provided.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Orhan Pamuk

2017-10-01
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Orhan Pamuk

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  • Author: Sevinç Türkkan
  • Publisher: Modern Language Association
  • ISBN: 1603293205
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 351

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, Orhan Pamuk is Turkey's preeminent novelist and an internationally recognized figure of letters. Influenced by both Turkish and European literature, his works interrogate problems of modernity and of East and West in the Turkish context and incorporate the Ottoman legacy linguistically and thematically. The stylistic and thematic aspects of his novels, his intriguing use of intertextual elements, and his characters' metatextual commentaries make his work rewarding in courses on world literature and on the postmodern novel. Pamuk's nonfiction writings extend his themes of memory, loss, personal and political histories, and the craft of the novel. Part 1, "Materials," provides biographical background and introduces instructors to translations and critical scholarship that will elucidate Pamuk's works. In part 2, "Approaches," essays cover topics that support teachers in a range of classrooms, including Pamuk's use of the Turkish language, the political background to Pamuk's novels, the politics of translation and aesthetics, and Pamuk's works as world literature.

Approaches to Teaching Voltaire's Candide

1987-01-01
Approaches to Teaching Voltaire's Candide

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  • Author: Renée Waldinger
  • Publisher: Modern Language Association
  • ISBN: 9780873525046
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 206

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein

2018-08-01
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein

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  • Author: Logan Esdale
  • Publisher: Modern Language Association
  • ISBN: 1603293450
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 185

A trailblazing modernist, Gertrude Stein studied psychology at Radcliffe with William James and went on to train as a medical doctor before coming out as a lesbian and moving to Paris, where she collected contemporary art and wrote poetry, novels, and libretti. Known as a writer's writer, she has influenced every generation of American writers since her death in 1946 and remains avant-garde. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides information and resources that will help teachers and students begin and pursue their study of Stein. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," introduce major topics to be covered in the classroom--race, gender, feminism, sexuality, narrative form, identity, and Stein's experimentation with genre--in a wide range of contexts, including literary analysis, art history, first-year composition, and cultural studies.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

2013-01-01
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

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  • Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher
  • Publisher: Modern Language Association
  • ISBN: 1603291857
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 247

Although Robert Louis Stevenson was a late Victorian, his work--especially Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--still circulates energetically and internationally among popular and academic audiences and among young and old. Admired by Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jorge Luis Borges, Stevenson's fiction crosses the boundaries of genre and challenges narrow definitions of the modern and the postmodern. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides an introduction to the writer's life, a survey of the criticism of his work, and a variety of resources for the instructor. In part 2, "Approaches," thirty essays address such topics as Stevenson's dialogue with James about literature; his verse for children; his Scottish heritage; his wanderlust; his work as gothic fiction, as science fiction, as detective fiction; his critique of imperialism in the South Seas; his usefulness in the creative writing classroom; and how Stevenson encourages expansive thinking across texts, times, places, and lives.

Approaches to Teaching Austen's Persuasion

2021-04-25
Approaches to Teaching Austen's Persuasion

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  • Author: Marcia McClintock Folsom
  • Publisher: Modern Language Association
  • ISBN: 1603294791
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 233

Jane Austen is a favorite with many students, whether they've read her novels or viewed popular film adaptations. But Persuasion, completed at the end of her life, can be challenging for students to approach. They are surprised to meet a heroine so subdued and self-sacrificing, and the novel's setting during the Napoleonic wars may be unfamiliar. This volume provides teachers with avenues to explore the depths and richness of the novel with both Austen fans and newcomers. Part 1, "Materials," suggests editions for classroom use, criticism, and multimedia resources. Part 2, "Approaches," presents strategies for teaching the literary, contextual, and philosophical dimensions of the novel. Essays address topics such as free indirect discourse and other narrative techniques; social class in Austen's England; the role of the navy during war and peacetime; key locations in the novel, including Lyme Regis and Bath; and health, illness, and the ethics of care.

Teaching Literature in the Real World

2021-07-01
Teaching Literature in the Real World

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  • Author: Patrick Collier
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350195073
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 185

Offering guidance and inspiration to English literature instructors, this book faces the challenges of real-life teaching and the contemporary higher education classroom head on. Whether you're teaching in a community college, a state school, a liberal arts college, or an Ivy League institution, this book offers valuable advice and insights which will help you to motivate, incentivize and inspire your students. Addressing questions such as: 'how do you articulate the value of literary education to students (and administrators, and parents)?', 'how can a class session with a fatigued and underprepared group of students be made productive?', and 'how do you incentivize overscheduled students to read energetically in preparation for class?', this book answers these universal quandaries and more, providing a usable philosophy of the value of literary education, articulating a set of learning goals for students of literature, and offering plenty of practical advice on pedagogical strategies, day-to-day coping, and more. In its sum, Teaching Literature in the Real World constitutes an experience-based philosophy of teaching literature that is practical and realistic, oriented towards helping students develop intellectual skills, and committed to pedagogy built on explicit, detailed, and observable learning objectives.

World Literature I

2015-12-31
World Literature I

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  • Author: Laura Getty
  • Publisher: University of North Georgia Press
  • ISBN: 9781940771328
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1576

This peer-reviewed World Literature I anthology includes introductory text and images before each series of readings. Sections of the text are divided by time period in three parts: the Ancient World, Middle Ages and Renaissance, and then divided into chapters by location. World Literature I and the Compact Anthology of World Literature are similar in format and both intended for World Literature I courses, but these two texts are developed around different curricula.

Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison

1997
Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison

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  • Author: Nellie Y. McKay
  • Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer
  • ISBN: 9780873527415
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 179

Teachers started assigning the novels of Toni Morrison long before she won the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature and before there was a significant body of secondary literature on the author. Now her works are the subject of countless studies and listed in the syllabi of an ever-increasing number of courses in schools and universities. The editors of this volume help the teacher to sort out the best materials and to meet the many challenges that Morrison's writings pose.