Approaches to Teaching Henry James's Daisy Miller and the Turn of the Screw (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780873529204)

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Approaches to Teaching Henry James's Daisy Miller and the Turn of the Screw

$95.00

Approaches to Teaching Henry James's Daisy Miller and the Turn of the Screw

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw, two of Henry James's most frequently taught works, have great appeal to both students and instructors. They are accessible and engaging yet offer interpretive challenges and explore intriguing issues: social-class tensions, an unstable narrative, ambiguity, and a possibly horrific view of parental and sexual relations.

Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," suggests background readings, critical texts to use in the classroom, and various teaching resources. In part 2, "Approaches," twenty-three essays cover different approaches to Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw (among others, new-historicist, biographical, metatextual, semantic, queer-theoretical, visual), show how these two novellas may be taught alongside their film adaptations, and discuss the use of these works in a composition course.



Author: Kimberly C. Reed
ISBN-10: 0873529200
ISBN-13: 9780873529204
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 221
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.11h x 5.91w x 0.81d
By Kimberly C. Reed
By Kimberly C. Reed
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Kimberly C. Reed is professor of English and foreign languages at Lipscomb University and director of study abroad. She has written on Henry James, Honoré de Balzac, and memoirists of the French Revolution as well as on contemporary British novelists. She is currently working on two projects: one on James's ghostly narratives; the other on a text for American university students living, studying, and working in London.

Peter G. Beidler is the Lucy G. Moses Professor of English at Lehigh University. He is the author of books and essays on subjects ranging from Henry James to Geoffrey Chaucer to Louise Erdrich to pedagogy. He is general editor of the series Manual of the Writings in English. He was named CASE National Professor of the Year in 1983, appointed Fulbright Professor of Sichaun University in China in 1987-88, and was Robert Foster Visiting Professor at Baylor University in 1995-96.

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