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Teaching Literature (Paperback)
Short Description for Teaching LiteratureA guidebook for all teachers of English and American literature in higher education. Drawing on 40 years of international teaching experience, author Elaine Showalter inspires instructors to make their classroom practice as intellectually exciting as their research.
Full description- Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS
- Published: 25 November 2002
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: Literature: History & Criticism | Literary Studies: General | Organization & Management Of Education | Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education | Teaching Of A Specific Subject
- ISBN 13: 9780631226246 ISBN 10: 0631226249
- Sales rank: 156,749
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Full description for Teaching Literature
Teaching Literature is an indispensable guidebook for all teachers of English and American literature in higher education. Drawing on 40 years of international teaching experience, author Elaine Showalter inspires instructors to make their classroom practice as intellectually exciting as their research. Showalter's wide-ranging reflections address practical, theoretical, and methodological issues. She starts out by describing the anxieties of teaching literature and by outlining the major theories and methods circulating in the field. She then goes on to look separately at teaching drama, fiction, poetry, and theory, and to explore ways to teach teaching. Finally, she investigates the moral issues involved in teaching, and the practical ethics of handling touchy subjects, from sexuality to suicide. Examples from real classes and careers are cited throughout, generating an unusual degree of authenticity and immediacy.
