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Teaching the novel across the curriculum : a handbook for educators /
Instructors at all levels are being encouraged to teach writing in their courses, even in subjects other than English. Because the novel reflects a broad set of human experiences and history, it is the ideal vehicle for learning about a wide range of issues. This book helps educators learn how to in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Colin Irvine
- Section One : Teaching the Novel in General Education Classes
- Reading Wollstonecraft's Maria from Cover to Cover and Back Again : The Novel in the General Education Course / Amy Branam
- A Nabokovian Treasure Hunt : Pale Fire for Beginners / Monique van den Berg
- Teaching the Dog's Tale : Vere's "moral dilemma involving aught of the tragic" in Billy Budd / Peter Kratzke
- Section Two : Using the Novel to Teach Multiculturalism
- Using the Novel to Teach Multiculturalism / Michelle Loris
- Teaching Chinua Achebe's Novel Things Fall Apart in Survey of English Literature II / Eric Sterling
- Implicating Knowledge with Practice, Intercultural Communication Education with the Novel / Yuko Kawai
- Teaching Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman in a Comparative Literature Classroom / Lan Dong
- "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" : The Polyphony of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Stephanie Li
- Section Three : Teaching the Novel in Literature Classes
- Written Images : Using Visual Literacy to Unravel the Novel / Ricia Anne Chansky
- Reading Right to Left : How Defamiliarization Helps Students Read a Familiar Genre / Christine M. Doran
- Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, Creative Writing and Teaching the Modernist Novel in the Introductory-Level Literature Classroom / Stephen E. Severn
- A.S. Byatt's Finishing School : Literary Criticism as Simulation / Alan Ramón Clinton
- Section Four : Teaching the Novel in the Humanities
- Teach the Conflict : Using Critical Thinking to Evaluate Anthony Swofford's Jarhead / John Bruni
- Novel Truths : The Things They Carried and Student Narratives about History / John Lennon
- Questioning Ethics : Incorporating the Novel into Ethics Courses / Rachel McCoppin
- Teaching Dickens's Hard Times in a General Education Humanities Course / Marshall Toman
- Novels in History Classes : Teaching the Historical Context / Gregory Schroeder
- Section Five : The Novel and the Social, Behavioral, and Political Sciences
- Reading Our Social Worlds : Utilizing Novels in Introductory Sociology Courses / Kristina B. Wolff
- Science Fiction as Social Fact : Review and Evaluation of the Use of Fiction in an Introductory Sociology Class / Peter Nieckarz, Jr.
- Insights from the Novel : Good Citizens in Social Contexts / Janine DeWitt and Margeurite Rippy
- Using The Autobiography of Malcolm X to Teach Introductory Sociology / Brent Harger and Tim Hallet
- Stories in Psychology : Sensation and Perception / Alexis Grosofsky
- Usefulness of Lord of the Flies in the Social Psychology Classroom / Douglas P. Simeone
- Demystifying social capital through Zola's Germinal / Lauretta Conklin Frederking
- Section Six : The Novel and the Professional Studies
- The Use of Contemporary Novels as a Method of Teaching Social Work Micro Practice / Pamela Black and Marta M. Miranda
- Multicultural Novels in Education / Elizabeth Berg Leer
- Theories and (Legal) Practice for Teachers in Training / Colin C. Irvine.