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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.

This volume confronts the challenges presented by the racial, ethnic, class, gender, religious, age, and physical-ability differences among today's writing students.

Contains valuable biographical and bibliographic information on an important group of Hispanic writers heretofore excluded from or under represented in traditional Spanish literary histories and bibliographic resources. The volume identifies nearly 500 authors - 421 Catalans, 31 Galicians, and 20 Basques - ranging from the medieval nuns who composed Les Malmonjades to women writing today.

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the nonfiction graphic novel Fun Home by Alison Bechdel in college courses in literature, women's and gender studies, and art, including considerations of autobiography theory, queer theory, psychoanalysis, literary and historical allusions, and the work's musical adaptation. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.

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.

A series of dream visions, Piers Plowman is a moral reckoning of the whole of medieval England, in which every part of society-from church and king to every sort of "folk" is considered in the light of the narrator's interpretation of Christian revelation. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this challenging text.

A prolific poet and a protofeminist, Christine de Pizan worked within a sophisticated late medieval court culture and formed an identity as an authority on her society's preoccupations with religion, politics, and morality. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through Pizan's work.

First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text.

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the prose, poetry, plays, and libretti of Gertrude Stein in college literature and composition classrooms, including consideration of race, gender, sexuality, narrative, diversity, identity, and visual arts. Includes information on reference works and online resources. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.

Twelve essays on marginalization, alienation, and persistent discrimination in English and foreign language departments across the United States as well as strategies for overcoming these obstacles.

"Emilia Pardo Bazan is without a doubt the most prolific and influential woman writer of late-nineteenth-century Spain", write the editors of this volume. Her writings cover topics from science and technology to fashion and gender equality. This volume provides biographical and critical resources, and explores Pardo-Bazan's engagement with contemporary literary movements, feminism and gender.

"Emilia Pardo Bazan is without a doubt the most prolific and influential woman writer of late-nineteenth-century Spain", write the editors of this volume. Her writings cover topics from science and technology to fashion and gender equality. This volume provides biographical and critical resources, and explores Pardo-Bazan's engagement with contemporary literary movements, feminism and gender.

Collected in this anthology are texts by intellectuals, writers, clergy, and political figures that deal with authority, social norms, conventions and practices both secular and religious, gender roles, class, travel, and technology. Presented in the original Arabic and in English translation, they will be of interest of students of Arabic language and culture, history, cultural studies, gender studies, and other disciplines.

In the tradition of George Eliot, George Sand, and other controversial women authors, Caterina Albert i Paradis assumed a man's name, Victor Catala. She wrote unflinching narratives, mostly in Catalan, of the people and life around her, producing a body of work still enlisted today to help the Catalan language resist the dominance of Peninsular Spanish.

In the tradition of George Eliot, George Sand, and other controversial women authors, Caterina Albert i Paradis assumed a man's name, Victor Catala. She wrote unflinching narratives, mostly in Catalan, of the people and life around her, producing a body of work still enlisted today to help the Catalan language resist the dominance of Peninsular Spanish.

Surveys the history of scholarly editing, describes the major research in a variety of disciplines, summarizes the resources available to scholars, and analyses the issues currently facing textual editors. Each chapter includes a history of scholarly editing in the field, a citation of exemplary editions, and an introduction to a recommended list of further readings.

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.

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.

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.

"This work fills a major need. It will give graduate students and experienced professors alike the confidence to teach Tolkien and the ability to construct a meaningful and challenging course." - Janet Brennan Croft, University of Oklahoma