Approaches To Teaching Defoe's Robinson Crusoe,9780873529174

Approaches To Teaching Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

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ISBN13: 9780873529174
ISBN10: 0873529170
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-07-01
Publisher(s): Modern Language Assn of Amer
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Summary

Now at ninety-three volumes, this popular MLA 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 teaching the text. In these essays, experienced teachers discuss approaches and methods they have found effective in keeping classroom discussions lively.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series ix
Introduction xi
PART ONE: MATERIALS
Maximillian E. Novak
Carl Fisher
Publishing History and Modern Editions
3(2)
Daniel Defoe: A Brief Biography
5(2)
The Critical Reputation of Robinson Crusoe and Its Status as a Novel
7(6)
Scholarly Biographies
13(1)
Crusoe's Fictional Predecessors
14(2)
Robinson Crusoe as International Text: Translation, Circulation, and Adaptation
16(3)
Internet Resources
19(6)
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Defoe and the History of English Narrative
Teaching The Pilgrim's Progress and Robinson Crusoe; or, From Filthy Mire to the Glory of Things
25(12)
Robert Maniquis
Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels: Some Pedagogical Frameworks
37(11)
Richard Braverman
Robinson Crusoe's Parodic Intertextuality
48(7)
Roxanne Kent-Drury
Gordon Sayre
Weber, Watt, and Restraint: Robinson Crusoe and the Critical Tradition
55(6)
Manuel Schonhorn
Intellectual and Ideological Contexts
Myths of Modern Individualism: Defoe, Franklin, and Whitman
61(8)
Geoffrey Sill
Crusoe among the Travelers
69(9)
Paula R. Backscheider
Thank God It's Friday: The Construction of Masculinity in Robinson Crusoe
78(10)
George E. Haggerty
Robinson Crusoe and Early-Eighteenth-Century Racial Ideology
88(8)
Roxann Wheeler
Teaching the Crusoe Trilogy
96(9)
Robert Markley
Formal and Thematic Approaches
Robinson Crusoe as Literary Art
105(6)
Timothy C. Blackburn
Messages in Bottles: A Comparative Formal Approach to Castaway Narratives
111(11)
John Barberet
A Semester on Crusoe's Island
122(7)
Matthew Wickman
Comparative and Intertextual Approaches
The Robinsonade: An Intercultural History of an Idea
129(11)
Carl Fisher
Reading the Hermit's Manuscript: The Female American and Female Robinsonades
140(12)
Laura M. Stevens
Contexts for Crusoe: Colonial Adventure and Social Disintegration
152(9)
Everett Zimmerman
Teaching Contemporary Responses to Robinson Crusoe: Coetzee, Walcott, and Others in a World Literature Survey
161(8)
Charles W. Pollard
Robinson Crusoe in Hollywood
169(6)
Robert Mayer
Classroom Contexts for Robinson Crusoe
Teaching Robinson Crusoe in the Introduction to Literature Course
175(5)
Christina Sassi-Lehner
``Great Labour and Difficulty'': Robinson Crusoe as Introduction to Literary Analysis
180(6)
Anne Chandler
From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf: Is There Room for Robinson Crusoe in an English Literature Survey Course?
186(5)
Carl Fisher
Teaching Robinson Crusoe in a Survey of the Novel Course
191(7)
Maximillian E. Novak
Robinson Crusoe and Children's Literature
198(9)
Anne Lundin
Accounting for the Self: Teaching Robinson Crusoe at a Business School
207(10)
Cheryl L. Nixon
Notes on Contributors 217(4)
Survey Participants 221(2)
Works Cited 223(16)
Index of Names 239

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