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A central figure of Spanish culture and an author in many genres, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is less well known outside Spain. He was a surprising writer and thinker: a professor of Greek who embraced metafiction and modernist methods. This book offers a guide to teaching his works.

A central figure of Spanish culture and an author in many genres, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is less well known outside Spain. He was a surprising writer and thinker: a professor of Greek who embraced metafiction and modernist methods. This book offers a guide to teaching his works.

Dante's Divine Comedy can compel and shock readers: it combines intense emotion and psychological insight with medieval theology and philosophy. This volume will help instructors lead their students through the many dimensions historical, literary, religious, and ethical that make the work so rewarding and enduringly relevant yet so difficult.

Offers techniques for teaching modern Latin American poetry in college courses, including considerations of teaching the silva, human rights, poetry in indigenous Languages, community-based learning, lesser-known contemporary poetry, Afro-descendant poetry, performance, the long poem, and queer theory.

Offers techniques for teaching modern Latin American poetry in college courses, including considerations of teaching the silva, human rights, poetry in indigenous Languages, community-based learning, lesser-known contemporary poetry, Afro-descendant poetry, performance, the long poem, and queer theory.

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the novels and short stories of Ernest Gaines in college literature classrooms, including considerations of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, influences, slavery, Jim Crow, black power, the black arts movement, humour, folk culture, film, adaptations, and criminal law.

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of Flannery O'Connor, including considerations of race, whiteness, class, religion, disability, gender, technology, the environment, and the post-World War II period. Gives syllabus suggestions for courses in American literature, Southern literature, creative writing, and women's studies.

Addresses a broad range of Eliza Haywood's works, providing literary and sociopolitical context from writings by Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, and others, and from contemporary documents such as advice manuals and court records.

David Foster Wallace's works engaged with his literary moment - roughly summarized as postmodernism - and with the author's historical context. The essays in this volume suggest ways to explain Wallace's philosophical and literary preoccupations as students contend with urgent issues, both personal and political, through reading literature.

David Foster Wallace's works engaged with his literary moment - roughly summarized as postmodernism - and with the author's historical context. The essays in this volume suggest ways to explain Wallace's philosophical and literary preoccupations as students contend with urgent issues, both personal and political, through reading literature.

Addresses the teaching of satire written in English over the past three hundred years. For instructors covering current satire, it will help in finding ways to enrich students' understanding of voice, irony, and rhetoric and to explore the questions of how to define satire and how to determine what its ultimate aims are.

Addresses the teaching of satire written in English over the past three hundred years. For instructors covering current satire, it will help in finding ways to enrich students' understanding of voice, irony, and rhetoric and to explore the questions of how to define satire and how to determine what its ultimate aims are.

Unusually manifold and complicated, the French revolution affords many teaching opportunities and challenges. This volume helps instructors seeking to connect developments today-terrorism, propaganda, extremism-with the events that began in 1789, contextualizing for students a world that seems always unmoored and in crisis.

Discusses theoretical issues pertinent to combining sustainability studies with foreign languages, describes curricular models transferable to a range of instructional contexts, and introduces program structures supportive of teaching cultures and languages across the curriculum.

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of Flannery O'Connor, including considerations of race, whiteness, class, religion, disability, gender, technology, the environment, and the post-World War II period.

Designed as a resource for use in creating and conducting courses and programs overseas, Study Abroad presents a diverse picture of options for study abroad. Contributors' experiences inform analyses of global trends, recommendations for enhanced learning, and course models that can be adapted for a variety of programs and locations.

Amitav Ghosh is the prizewinning author of novels, nonfiction, and hybrid texts. His works cross and mix a number of genres, from science fiction to the historical novel. Part 1 of this volume discusses editions of Ghosh's works and major works of scholarship. Part 2, "Approaches", present ideas for teaching Ghosh's works.

Designed as a resource for use in creating and conducting courses and programs overseas, Study Abroad: Traditions and New Directions presents a diverse picture of options for study abroad. Essays discuss current policies, procedures, and formats including language immersion, interdisciplinary studies, and mentored research.

Shakespeare's history plays make up nearly a third of his corpus and feature iconic characters and unforgettable scenes. But these plays present challenges for teachers. Part 1 of this volume introduces instructors to the many available editions of the plays, the wealth of contectual and critical writings available, and other resources. Part 2 contains essays on various topics in the plays.

A prolific poet, art critic, essayist, and translator, Charles Baudelaire is best known for his volumes of verse and prose poems. This volume explores his prose poems, which depict Paris during the Second Empire and offer compelling and fraught representations of urban expansion, social change, and modernity.

Provides a comprehensive resource for instructors who aim to help students identify and understand the distinctive features of narrativity in a text or discourse and make use of the terms and concepts of the field. In twenty-one essays, the contributors discuss narrative theory's various teaching contexts; key concepts and; applications beyond printed texts; and impact on other areas of theory .

A leader of the transcendentalist movement and one of America's first public intellectuals, Ralph Waldo Emerson is remembered for his essays, but in the nineteenth century he was also known as a poet and orator. This volume presents strategies for placing Emerson in the context of his time, for illuminating his rhetorical techniques, and for tracing his influence into the present day and around the world.

Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic has joined the ranks of celebrated literary graphic novels. Set in part at a family-run funeral home, the book explores Alison's complicated relationship with her father, a closeted gay man. This volume offers strategies for teaching Fun Home in a variety of courses, including literature, women's and gender studies, art, and education.

Praised by Voltaire and admired by Pushkin, Évariste Parny (1753-1814) became a member of the Académie Française. Despite this, some of his poetry was banned after his death. This edition includes poems from the Poésies érotiques and Élégies; the Chansons madécasses; five of his published letters; the narrative poem "Le Voyage de Céline”; and selections from his later poetry.

First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text.

Teaching British labouring-class literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries means exploring ideas of class, status, and labour in relation to the historical developments that inform our lives as workers and members of society. This volume demonstrates pedagogical techniques and provides resources for students and teachers about this literature.

A prolific poet and a protofeminist, Christine de Pizan worked within a sophisticated late medieval court culture and formed an identity as an authority on her society's preoccupations with religion, politics, and morality. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through Pizan's work.