Approaches to Teaching Milton's Shorter Poetry and Prose - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0873525949 ISBN 13 : 9780873525947

Editeur : Modern Language Association of America, 2007

Synopsis

Milton’s shorter poetry and prose can be challenging to teach, but they reward instructors and students many times over: they introduce in compact, accessible form the themes and difficult syntax of Paradise Lost, expand and comment on the epic and on one another, and provide students ideal training in close reading. The essays in this volume constitute a road map for exploring the most frequently taught of Milton’s shorter works―”Lycidas,” the Nativity Ode, Comus, Samson Agonistes, Areopagitica, and The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce―as well as the sonnets, Paradise Regained, The Reason of Church Government, and The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, among others. The contributors demonstrate ways of incorporating Milton’s shorter works into a range of classrooms, from survey courses to Milton seminars; list specific tools to make the works’ relevance and aesthetic pleasures available to a wide variety of student populations; and offer a wealth of techniques for helping students navigate Milton’s demanding style and complicated historical context.

Like all volumes in the Approaches series, this collection includes a convenient survey of original and supplementary materials and a comprehensive array of classroom tactics. Three sections of essays provide general approaches to the poetry and prose, through biography, genre, literary and political history, and other methodologies. The fourth section addresses the teaching of individual poems, and the final section articulates ways into specific prose works.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter C. Herman is professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University. He has published two books, Destabilizing Milton: Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Incertitude (2005) and Squitter-Witts and Muse-Haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance Antipoetic Sentiment (1996), and has edited Historicizing Theory (2004), Day Late, Dollar Short: The Next Generation and the New Academy (2000), and Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I (2002). His essay have appeared in such journals as Renaissance Quarterly, SEL, and Criticism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Modern Language Association of America
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0873525949
• ISBN 13: 9780873525947
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Éditeur: Herman Peter C.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible