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..., and Culture Volume 5, Number 3, © 2005 Duke University Press 445 Teaching the Brontës Today: Notes from a Roundtable Barbara T. Gates The Brontës live, both in popular culture and in the classroom. Proof of this statement lies all around us. Just pick up a copy of Jasper Fforde s popular novel The Eyre Aff...

...Jennifer H. Williams Teaching the Graphic Novel . Edited by Tabachnick Stephen E. . New York : Modern Language Association of America , 2009 . © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Reviews The Canon and the Cutting Edge...

... to male students, who liked it and talked about it, often without prompting. The article details several pedagogical strategies using Madame Bovary to develop students’ critical reading and help them understand the still very contemporary issues at the heart of Flaubert’s novel. © 2014 by Duke...

... in shock, leaving her daughter to be taken in by the family of a villager who turns out to be Ellen's foster brother. Pairing Bowles's poem with Opie's novel allows students to explore the roles of genre (and generic conventions) in the presentation of similar tales and to examine both the technical...

... . Yancey, Kathleen Blake. 1999 . “Looking Back As We Look Forward: Historicizing Writing Assessment.” College Composition and Communication 50 : 483 -503. I Am Elizabeth Bennet : Defining One s Self through Austen s Third Novel Nora Nachumi I have always read Jane Austen as a political writer...

...Erica Gene Delsandro This article examines how the popular television series Downton Abbey , functioning in tandem with twentieth-century novels, provides students with a cultural forum that opens up a cultural, literary, and historical period that would otherwise remain distant. By encouraging...

... Harold . 1969 . Students without Teachers: The Crisis in the University . New York : McGraw-Hill . Tussman Joseph . 1969 . Experiment at Berkeley . New York : Oxford University Press . Commentary Taking on “Best Practices” A Novel...

...Chester Scoville Teaching the graphic novel in English and literature courses can be a challenge, because some of the most commonly used techniques for analyzing literature are not entirely compatible with the analysis of a multimodal form like comics. Additionally, the traditional classroom can...

... strategies the author has successfully employed when teaching texts that highlight diverse perspectives. She focuses specifically on global feminist literature by way of one primary example, the contemporary Australian Aboriginal novel Home by Larissa Behrendt, which highlights the “stolen generations...

... by exploring monstrousness in Victorian science fiction novels, such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , and then shift to a study of how conventions of these novels recur in novels that examine race in American society, such as Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird . In combination with class discussion and course...

...Daniel R. Mangiavellano This article makes a case for using Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a tool for skill-based writing instruction in the composition classroom. The novel employs prose strategies such as commonplaces and amplification that become springboards for class conversation about...

...Clark Barwick Barwick uses Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (1929) to introduce students to the concept of colorism. Barwick’s essay outlines a strategy for integrating technology into the classroom, which helps facilitate discussions of the United States...

...Anne Humpherys This essay describes a graduate course, The Nineteenth-Century Novel in Context, that I developed and taught in fall 2011 at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. The essay was developed from an oral presentation that was part of a teaching panel at the Northeast...

... she now understands an ethnic group after reading an ethnic American novel, for example. By using fiction and non-fiction film, teachers can destabilize students' oversimplified views of ethnic groups and of the concepts of race and ethnicity themselves. The course described here started with Toni...

...Elizabeth Effinger Abstract This article describes a creative public humanities project undertaken to mark the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that transformed the entire novel into an erasure poem made by incarcerated and nonincarcerated participants...

...erin Khuê Ninh This article shares tactics for teaching Blu’s Hanging as a text assigned because of its controversy, though not necessarily subsumed by it. The novel is presented so as to grapple with the stakes of ethnic/racial representation alongside careful textual analysis, using...

...Stephanie Moody Drawing from interviews and book discussions with eleven women who read popular romance fiction, in this article I examine the affective, embodied, and identificatory reading practices that constitute women's engagements with romance novels. I argue that while these women's reading...

...Jason J. Gulya This article uses Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy to explore how literature instructors can use eighteenth-century novels, many of which bring attention to themselves as creations of the writing process, to encourage their students to reflect on their position as writers...

.... This article emphasizes the multigeneric quality of Browning's epic and the advantages of presenting its successive layers. The poem functions as a veiled autobiographical narrative of development, a fast-paced novel plot centering on gender and class relationships, and a closet drama utilizing features...

... that editorial cartooning can help solve. While the educational use of editorial cartooning is not a novel concept, asking our students to locate cartoons based on a topic of their choosing and to analyze the satirical debate across these cartoons serves as an accessible inquiry‐driven research project for first...