Search Results for world literature

...Tanya Agathocleous; Karin Gosselink Duke University Press 2006 Apter, Emily. 2004 . “Global Translatio: The `Invention' of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933.” In Debating World Literature , ed. Christopher Prendergast, 76 -109. New York: Verso. Bérubé, Michael. 2002...

... Association of America. Curran, Stuart. 1997 . “Something Evermore about to Be: Teaching and Textbases.” In Behrendt and Linkin 1997 : 25 -31. Dolle, Raymond F. 1990 . “The New Canaan, the Old Canon, and the New World in American Literature Anthologies.” College Literature 17 : 196 -207. Dubrow...

... as a fruitful approach for teaching early world literature, since students need some invitation to enter into a conversation with the reading and crave some sense of present relevance. Encountering a text in multiple English translations directs our attention away from an arrested sense of its existence...

...Travis Landry; Jesse Matz Now that “world literature” has become a theoretical problem as much as a body of texts, the small-college classroom faces new challenges and new opportunities. Resource limitations and other constraints combine with advantages of scale and ethos to make the small college...

... political views writers and readers may hold. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 World War I literature soldiers' memoirs antiwar literature militarism Yuval Noah Harari pacifism Works Cited Eksteins Modris . 1980 . “All Quiet on the Western Front and the Fate of a War...

... of the Modern Language Association , Philadelphia, PA, December . Van Dijk, Teun A. 1997 . Discourse as Social Interaction . London: Sage. Overwhelmed by the World:   Teaching Literature and the Difference   of Nations Rajini Srikanth The premise of this essay is twofold: that we live...

... and of group boundaries. . . . a sense of violation and humiliation, in the experience of narcissistic injury.” Since literature helped my students comprehend the 2001 attack, I decided that I would again use storytelling three years later when I intro- duced the World Trade Center attack to a class...

... . New York: Vintage. Fish Stories: Teaching Children s Literature in a Postmodern World Karen Coats Teaching children s literature in a university English department is an enter- prise fraught with personal and professional risk. No matter how sophisti- cated your theoretical commitments, no matter...

... nature of the content, non-Indigenous BIPOC students appear to be put at ease by the recognition that their own experiences of racial suffering are being validated in the narratives we read in the course. The formally anonymous survey feedback in my World Indigenous Literatures course did foreground...

... assistants were trained to use the communicative language teaching method, especially as it is developed by Lee and VanPatten in Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (1995). When the author switched to teaching world literature survey courses in the Department of English at North Carolina State...

... process of learning that needs to take place in a foreign language. While more knowledge can be taken for granted in the literature classroom, it still makes sense to design a syllabus considering the sequence of skills the students will need. Beginning a world literature survey course...

...Annette Lucksinger This piece discusses the use of sense of place as a focal point for studying literature to lead students to consider the complexity of the human relation to the physical world, the universal connections between people and landscapes, and the reciprocal impact...

...Jacob Stratman Abstract In a world of Google‐age information accessibility and Facebook‐fueled quick rants, the author is interested in teaching a process of reading poetry that does not include easily accessed “answers” or result in reactionary analysis. By using contemporary poetry...

...” to a text in the way that a tool might be applied to an object. Particelli argues that those often didactic approaches push students to learn a specific script for a specific situation and can even push students to experience the world polemically and thus to become less willing to see complexity...

...Jeraldine R. Kraver This study compares two different groups of readers—college English majors and a community reading group—in how they engage food-centric stories by Anzia Yezierska and Lara Vapnyar. The groups' polemical responses etch a rhetorical space between the worlds inside and outside...

...Kyle Sebastian Vitale Instructors of the literature survey often struggle to help students see past a brisk syllabus toward deeper literary, historical, and cultural concerns. Moreover, surveys often discourage participation and assess more historical knowledge like dates and names. This essay...

...Elizabeth Zold This article argues for the use of experiential learning to teach eighteenth-century travel literature to undergraduates. Exploring the three-dimensional virtual world of Second Life, students wrote their own travelogues and reflected on the ways in which the experience affected how...

... and recognize that such contradictions exist in both the Western and non-Western world. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 queer theory Singapore Victorian literature Oscar Wilde postcolonial Recent scholarship on transnational sexualities emphasizes the pitfalls of projecting...

... of color. The discussion underscores how an undergraduate research experience in canonical English literature opens new connections to contemporary depictions of a globalizing world, as well as how digital tools can visualize those connections and grant the student a valuable set of skills. Works Cited...

...-­article cluster on “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Dante’s Commedia,” ably assembled and edited by Kirilka Stavreva of Cornell College. Draw- ing from a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar titled “Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Medieval World: Literature, History, Art...