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Thanks to the success of franchises such as The Hunger Games and Twilight, young adult literature has reached a new level of prominence and popularity. The essays in this volume suggest ways high school and college instructors can incorporate YA texts into courses in literature, education, library science, and general education.

This volume helps teachers address the following questions: What is the relation of canonical works to the multitude of occasional texts that were penned in response to the Civil War? Should an approach to war literature reflect the chronology of historical events or focus on thematic clusters and theoretical concerns? How do we introduce students to archival materials?

Taking up the idea that teaching is a political act, this collection of essays reflects on recent trends in ecocriticism and the implications for pedagogy. Focusing on a diverse set of literature and media, the book also provides background on historical and theoretical issues that animate the field of postcolonial ecocriticism.

Taking up the idea that teaching is a political act, this collection of essays reflects on recent trends in ecocriticism and the implications for pedagogy. Focusing on a diverse set of literature and media, the book also provides background on historical and theoretical issues that animate the field of postcolonial ecocriticism.

Addresses both the history of French neoclassical tragedy - its audiences, performance practice, and development as a genre - and the ideas these works raise, such as necessity, free will, desire, power, and moral behaviour in the face of limited choices.

Addresses both the history of French neoclassical tragedy - its audiences, performance practice, and development as a genre - and the ideas these works raise, such as necessity, free will, desire, power, and moral behaviour in the face of limited choices.

Focusing on South Asian women writers, essays in this volume address historical and political contexts, including colonialism, partition, migration, ecological concerns, and evolving gender roles, and consider both traditional and contemporary genres such as graphic novels, chick lit, and Instapoetry.

As authors and publishers, individuals and collectives, women significantly shaped the modernist movement. The essays in this volume explore formal aspects and thematic concerns of modernism while also challenging rigid notions of what constitutes literary value as well as the idea of a canon with fixed boundaries.

Focusing on South Asian women writers, essays in this volume address historical and political contexts, including colonialism, partition, migration, ecological concerns, and evolving gender roles, and consider both traditional and contemporary genres such as graphic novels, chick lit, and Instapoetry.

Mexicana and Chicana authors from the late 1970s to the turn of the century helped overturn the patriarchal literary culture and mores of their time. This volume acquaints readers with the provocative, at times defiant, yet subtle discourses of this generation of writers and explains the influences and historical contexts that shaped their work

Takes an expansive view of Jewish American literature, beginning with writing from the earliest colonies in the Americas and continuing to contemporary Soviet-born authors in the United States, including works that engage deeply with religious concepts and others that embrace assimilation.

Offers techniques for teaching modern Latin American poetry in college courses, including considerations of teaching the silva, human rights, poetry in indigenous Languages, community-based learning, lesser-known contemporary poetry, Afro-descendant poetry, performance, the long poem, and queer theory.

Offers techniques for teaching modern Latin American poetry in college courses, including considerations of teaching the silva, human rights, poetry in indigenous Languages, community-based learning, lesser-known contemporary poetry, Afro-descendant poetry, performance, the long poem, and queer theory.

Addresses the teaching of satire written in English over the past three hundred years. For instructors covering current satire, it will help in finding ways to enrich students' understanding of voice, irony, and rhetoric and to explore the questions of how to define satire and how to determine what its ultimate aims are.

Addresses the teaching of satire written in English over the past three hundred years. For instructors covering current satire, it will help in finding ways to enrich students' understanding of voice, irony, and rhetoric and to explore the questions of how to define satire and how to determine what its ultimate aims are.

Unusually manifold and complicated, the French revolution affords many teaching opportunities and challenges. This volume helps instructors seeking to connect developments today-terrorism, propaganda, extremism-with the events that began in 1789, contextualizing for students a world that seems always unmoored and in crisis.

Teaching British labouring-class literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries means exploring ideas of class, status, and labour in relation to the historical developments that inform our lives as workers and members of society. This volume demonstrates pedagogical techniques and provides resources for students and teachers about this literature.

Guides instructors in choosing among many possibilities to design an history of the English language (HEL) course to match their own interests and institutions. The essays consider what subjects to include, how to organise the course, and what textbook to assign. They offer historical approaches and those that are not structured by chronology.

In this volume, instructors will find ideas for teaching the Italian Renaissance romance epic along with its adaptations in film, theatre, visual art, and music. An extensive resources section locates primary texts online and lists critical studies, anthologies, and reference works.

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching First World War literature in the college classroom, including considerations of gender, queerness, modernism, pacifism, imperialism, code-switching, children's books, graphic novels, community-based learning, the Middle East, South Asia, and the influenza pandemic. Contains information on reference works and online resources. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.

Even as Arabic literature is increasingly being translated into English, the modern Arabic literary tradition is still often treated as other - controversial, dangerous, difficult, esoteric, or exotic. This volume examines modern Arabic literature in context and introduces creative teaching methods that reveal the literature's richness, relevance, and power to anglophone students.

Explores significant themes and topics in Australian and New Zealand literature. In their introduction, the editors address both the commonalities and differences between the two nations' literatures by considering literary and historical contexts and by making nuanced connections between the global and the local.

Explores significant themes and topics in Australian and New Zealand literature. In their introduction, the editors address both the commonalities and differences between the two nations' literatures by considering literary and historical contexts and by making nuanced connections between the global and the local.

Provides a wide range of options for teaching the complexities of the Latin American literary Boom of the 1960s and '70s, explores the influence of Boom works and authors, presents different frameworks for thinking about the Boom, proposes ways to approach it in the classroom, and provides resources for selecting materials for courses.

"The time for human rights and literature has clearly come. In this field, Goldberg and Moore are among the most qualified to edit a volume for the MLA Options for Teaching series. The collection will help to expand thinking - and questions - about these interdisciplinary studies." - Domna Stanton, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

"The time for human rights and literature has clearly come. In this field, Goldberg and Moore are among the most qualified to edit a volume for the MLA Options for Teaching series. The collection will help to expand thinking - and questions - about these interdisciplinary studies." - Domna Stanton, Graduate Center, City University of New York.