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Beschreibung

Teaching Literature is an inspirational guidebook for all teachers of English and American literature in higher education.

  • Written by leading academic, prolific author and cultural journalist, Elaine Showalter
  • Original and provocative reflections on teaching literature in higher education
  • Encourages teachers to make their classroom practice intellectually exciting
  • Wide-ranging - covers the practical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of teaching literature
  • Highly practical - employs real examples from real classes and careers throughout
  • Draws on 40 years of international teaching experience

Teaching Literature is an inspirational guidebook for all teachers of English and American literature in higher education.

  • Written by leading academic, prolific author and cultural journalist, Elaine Showalter
  • Original and provocative reflections on teaching literature in higher education
  • Encourages teachers to make their classroom practice intellectually exciting
  • Wide-ranging - covers the practical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of teaching literature
  • Highly practical - employs real examples from real classes and careers throughout
  • Draws on 40 years of international teaching experience
Über den Autor

Elaine Showalter is Professor of English at Princeton University. She has been a teacher of English and American Literature for 40 years and has taught high school students, undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and other adults in the United States, Canada, Britain and Europe. She has also directed a teaching seminar for graduate students. During 1998 she was President of the Modern Language Association of America.
The author's publications include A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing (1982), The Female Malady: Women, Madness and Society 1830-1980 (1987), Sexual Anarchy (1991), Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing (1991) and Inventing Herself (2001).

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface and Acknowledgements.

1. The Anxiety of Teaching.

2. Theories of Teaching Literature.

3. Methods of Teaching Literature.

4. Teaching Poetry.

5. Teaching Drama.

6. Teaching Fiction.

7. Teaching Theory.

8. Teaching Teachers.

9. Teaching Dangerous Subjects.

10. Teaching Literature in Dark Times.

Conclusion: The Joy of Teaching Literature.

Notes.

Index.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780631226246
ISBN-10: 0631226249
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Showalter, Elaine
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 228 x 153 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Elaine Showalter
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.11.2002
Gewicht: 0,277 kg
Artikel-ID: 132522393

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