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"Provides guidance for college instructors teaching literature online. Topics include interactivity, student engagement, and inclusivity, along with considerations of hypertext, video lectures, and other asynchronous and synchronous tools. Literary subjects include Shakespeare, Chinese novels, early American literature, Octavia Butler, and contemporary American poetry"---

"Offers techniques for teaching the novels of James Fenimore Cooper in undergraduate and graduate classrooms, including considerations of American identity, American Indians, Native Americans, Indigenous American poetics, race, detective fiction, media history, film adaptations, environmentalism, environmental apocalypse, animal studies, cross-culturalism, and the French and Indian Wars"--

Provides strategies for research in literature, from understanding an assignment and choosing a topic to citing sources and creating a bibliography. Gives guidance on searching library catalogs, subject-specific databases, and the Internet. Offers advice on choosing keywords, evaluating online sources, distinguishing between primary and secondary sources, and making interlibrary loan requests.

"Provides guidance for college instructors teaching literature online. Topics include interactivity, student engagement, and inclusivity, along with considerations of hypertext, video lectures, and other asynchronous and synchronous tools. Literary subjects include Shakespeare, Chinese novels, early American literature, Octavia Butler, and contemporary American poetry"---

James Harner's popular handbook, first published in 1985, has been revised and updated in the light of advances in computer technology and the availability of humanities databases.

This volume helps teachers address the following questions: What is the relation of canonical works to the multitude of occasional texts that were penned in response to the Civil War? Should an approach to war literature reflect the chronology of historical events or focus on thematic clusters and theoretical concerns? How do we introduce students to archival materials?

Based on real events of the French Resistance during World War II, Edith Thomas's stories explore how ordinary people respond to the extraordinary conditions of political occupation. The stories, first published under the title Contes d'Auxois by an underground press in 1943, were written to oppose Vichy-Nazi propaganda.

Part of the wave of African novels of the 1960s and 70s that grappled with the disenchantments of decolonization, Giambatista Viko can be read at once as a Congolese novel, a francophone novel, and a work of world literature.

Part of the wave of African novels of the 1960s and 70s that grappled with the disenchantments of decolonization, Giambatista Viko can be read at once as a Congolese novel, a francophone novel, and a work of world literature.

Recounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that portrays the strains on Russian society in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Recounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that portrays the strains on Russian society in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Before children's stories came to exemplify the French fairy tale, early modern audiences read the works of women writers known as conteuses. From the late seventeenth century through the Revolution, the conteuses published rich, complex tales that were popular in literary salons and elite courtly settings.

Before children's stories came to exemplify the French fairy tale, early modern audiences read the works of women writers known as conteuses. From the late seventeenth century through the Revolution, the conteuses published rich, complex tales that were popular in literary salons and elite courtly settings.

Featuring both complex structural features and psychological and emotional realism, The Plum in the Golden Vase centres on the rich merchant Ximen Qing and his household and describes the physical surroundings and material objects of a Ming Dynasty city.

Featuring both complex structural features and psychological and emotional realism, The Plum in the Golden Vase centres on the rich merchant Ximen Qing and his household and describes the physical surroundings and material objects of a Ming Dynasty city.

Structurally innovative and culturally expansive, the works of Karen Tei Yamashita invite readers to rethink conventional paradigms of genres and national traditions. Addressing courses in American studies, contemporary fiction, environmental humanities, and literary theory, the essays in this volume are written by instructors around the globe.

Structurally innovative and culturally expansive, the works of Karen Tei Yamashita invite readers to rethink conventional paradigms of genres and national traditions. Addressing courses in American studies, contemporary fiction, environmental humanities, and literary theory, the essays in this volume are written by instructors around the globe.

For nearly seventy years, the Modern Language Association has helped student writers choose trustworthy sources and use them to support their own ideas. Now, the authority on writing and research presents the clearest approach to MLA style yet with the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook.