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Offers an holistic approach to post-secondary language teaching that integrates the study of literature and culture into every level of the curriculum. By studying multiple genres ranging from popular to elite, students gain an understanding of multiple communicative frameworks - and develop multiple literacies.

Now at sixty-four volumes, the MLA's popular Approaches to Teaching World Literature series addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to the teaching of the text. In these essays, experienced teachers discuss approaches and methods of presentation that they have found effective in keeping classroom discussions lively.

This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote highlights dramatic changes in pedagogy and scholarship in the last thirty years: today, criticsand teachers acknowledge that subject position, cultural identity, and political motivations afford multiple perspectives on the novel, and they examine both literary and sociohistorical contextualization with fresh eyes.

This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote highlights dramatic changes in pedagogy and scholarship in the last thirty years: today, critics and teachers acknowledge that subject position, cultural identity, and political motivations afford multiple perspectives on the novel, and they examine both literary and sociohistorical contextualization with fresh eyes.

Set in prerevolutionary France, The Story of Ernestine tells of the love between a naive apprentice painter and the marquis de Clemengis, a world-weary aristocrat.

Although written a century ago, the sixteen stories by Emilia Pardo Bazan collected in this volume are strikingly relevant to contemporary concerns. Noted for narrative complexity, stylistic variety, and feminist themes, Pardo Bazan's stories explore many aspects of the relationships between men and women. Both outspoken and witty, melancholy and humorous, these stories will interest general readers as well as students and scholars of Spanish literature.

First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Nihilist Girl is the story of a young aristocrat who longs to devote her life to a cause.

A beautiful marquise who is actually a man and a handsome marquis who is actually a young woman fall in love. Will they live happily ever after?

The Story of the Stone (or Dream of the Red Chamber), a Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin and continued by Gao E, tells of an amazing garden, of a young man's choice between two beautiful women, of his journey toward enlightenment, and of the moral and financial decline of a powerful family.

Woodbridge's annotated bibliography has become the standard for graduate students seeking an introduction to Spanish language and literature studies and for librarians developing reference collections in the field. This second edition contains more than three hundred new entries and updates previous listings.

Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the French Revolution.

Although the rediscovery in 1973 of the long-forgotten story "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, met an enthusiastic reception, no one expected the enormous impact it would have, resulting in dozens of articles and books, numerous dissertations, dramatizations on stage and in film, and inclusion in college literature anthologies. Not surprisingly, then, the story, often alongside Gilman's second-most-famous work, Herland (1915), is widely taught in a variety of disciplines. This volume addresses the rewards and challenges of teaching these two works and offers a practical and valuable resource for teachers who are new to Gilman as well as for experienced teachers looking for fresh approaches.

The six letters composing this 1784 novel tell the story of a woman who has chosen a decent and affectionate man as her life's companion only to discover that she cannot bear sharing his life.

"Good, motivated, well-read students can have trouble reading To the Lighthouse, " admit the editors of this volume; "not-so-well-read students may have even greater difficulty." Yet many instructors still find Woolf's fifth novel her most accessible because it grapples with issues that interest students. The essays in this collection show how teachers can handle the threatening question "Why are we reading this?" with thoughtful answers that make the novel come alive in the classroom.

"Teaching Lawrence is problematic because of the strong responses he arouses in readers, " observe the editors of this collection of essays. Lawrence's forceful language, imagery, and rhythms can make readers feel they are being attacked or challenged. In essays that attempt to "suggest the rich intellectual possibilities inherent in teaching material that generates such heat, " contributors in this Approaches volume describe ways to encourage students to read more closely, accurately, and sensitively and t learn how to complicate their reading.

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.