...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...

... Totten    Edith Wharton as a Short Story Writer  121 strated as much by reading Wharton within the early-twentieth-century clash between highbrow and middlebrow culture. While Thompson focuses on Wharton’s later novels and Ammons also focuses on Wharton’s novel-length fiction in her extended...

... situation. It takes two to teach. Jacques Barzun (1945: 43) One book that speaks helpfully about teaching in the twentieth century is Jacques Barzun s Teacher in America. Wise with the experiences of a writer who was also a philosopher, Barzun s extended essay both describes and explores what pedagogy...

...Anna Barattin Abstract This piece is a reflection on spatiality as critical approach in the classroom. The article focuses on a seminar taught during spring 2019, in which cognitive mapping and thirdspace were used as tools to analyze twentieth-century American literature. Through the elaboration...

... division and graduate courses in twentieth-century American literature. She has published on many twentieth-century writ- ers, including William Carlos Williams, A. R. Ammons, Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, and William Trevor. She is currently completing a book on Kenneth Burke and American poetry...

..., push against various forms of discrimination in the first part of the twentieth century orms of  —prejudice f that continue to affect us today. However, in an 358 dagogy  pe era when most students no longer read novels and poems as their primary forms of cultural engagement, how do we make...

.... Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega is assistant professor of contemporary American poetry studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She teaches courses in contemporary poetry studies, twentieth-­century American lit- erature, and African American literature, including a senior seminar...

... of Erich Maria Remarque are based on the authority of the flesh-witness. To test Harari's claims, I invited ROTC officers to speak to students enrolled in a course titled British Literature: The Twentieth Century about their military experience. The juxtaposition of Harari's research and the officers...

... interests are twentieth-century British and American literature, travel literature, and the pedagogy of literature and creative writing, and she has published a variety of articles and book chapters in these fields as well as presenting numerous papers at international conferences. She has taught...

... interdisciplinary course titled August Wilson’s Twentieth Century: Texts, Contexts, and Performances. Aimed at synthesizing multiple disciplines in the context of a fifteen-­week focus on August Wilson’s oeuvre, the course involved my providing students with approaches to exploring African Ameri- can...

... autonomy of literary forms, one might appropriately teach a history of the novel from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries assigning only novels. Such a course might bracket historical context, but still there is a certain validity in focusing on the history of the genre and its codes...

... solidified the literary-­historical presence of Miguel de Unamuno, for example. His 1914 novel Niebla (Mist) is the best- represented twentieth-­century work of fiction in the Peninsular Spanish read- ing list canon. Brown    Constructing Our Pedagogical Canons  543...

... begin with toasts of the early twentieth century because the language and rhymes are accessible. I contrast the popu- 374  pedagogy lar twentieth-­century toast “Shine and the Titanic” with the contemporary hip-­hop lyrics of Mos Def’s “Blue Black Jack” to demonstrate, both past and present...

... Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-­Colored Man (1912) in my Harlem Renaissance course. This unusual combination mani- fested after I experienced the challenge of team teaching an undergraduate interdisciplinary course titled August Wilson’s Twentieth Century: Texts, Contexts, and Performances...

... to be more monstrous than the characters explicitly identified as monsters, which is of course one of the major points of these novels. In the next reading section, the class studied how Victorian depic- tions of monsters carried over into twentieth-­century American fiction. In our class...

...); The Poets’ Dante: Twentieth-­Century Reflections (2001), coedited with Rachel Jacoff; andDante: A Brief History (2006). Dante features as well in his expan- sion of his 2007 Beecher Lectures on Preaching in Undiscovered Country: Imagining the World to Come (2009). It was his privilege to join Brenda...

... 199 Peary, Alexandria | The Hidden Ethos Inside Process Pedagogy 289 Raymond, Richard C. | Considering Claims and Finding One’s Place: Teaching Students to Read Twentieth-­Century American Poetry   251 Reich, Paul D., and Emily Russell | Taking the Text on a Road Trip...

... as isolated from other media, including other printed media as well as oratory, theater, film, video, and digital textuality. My particular spe- cialization in modernism — the literature and culture of the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth — has given me a special sense...

.... Patricia Foster just returned to Iowa from a semester s teaching at Paul Valéry University in southern France, land of fizzy vitamins, tiny cars, pink flamingoes, and white horses. While there, she taught contemporary women s autobiography and twentieth-century American literature to French undergraduates...

... of Character Narration. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2007a. “Estranging Unreliability, Bonding Unreliability, and the Ethics of Lolita.” Narrative 15: 222 – 38. Rpt. in Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century First-Person Novel, ed. Elke D’hoker and Gunther Martens, 7 – 28...