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Teaching Faulkner Approaches and Methods
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Stephen Hahn, Robert W. Hamblin
Book Code: GM1590
ISBN: 0-313-31590-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31590-9
240 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 11/30/2000
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of American Literature
Series Number: 9
Description: For decades now literary critics have universally praised Faulkner as one of the greatest writers of the modern era, yet students assigned to read his novels in university, college, and high school classes continue to struggle to make sense of his convoluted plots, prolix style, and complex characterizations. The broadest treatment to date of a topic of increasing concern, this book is designed to provide fresh strategies and practical suggestions for the classroom study of several of Faulkner's finest novels and stories, including The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August, The Unvanquished, and Go Down, Moses. The contributors, all noted Faulkner scholars who regularly teach Faulkner works in their courses, employ a variety of critical theories and approaches. In each chapter, theory is subordinated to tested classroom methods that both motivate and assist students in reading the texts and in understanding why Faulkner remains relevant for contemporary readers. The teaching strategies described in this book draw upon such diverse matters as cultural and social analysis, historical context, reading and rhetorical theory, film and stage techniques, comparative studies, and race, class, and gender issues.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Stephen Hahn and Robert W. Hamblin
  • Why Faulkner?
  • When the Dancing Mind Meets Inquiring Minds: The Nobel Profession in Practice by Theresa M. Towner
  • "No Longer at Ease Here":Faulkner in the New Millennium by Philip M. Weinstein
  • Why I, a Woman of Color from India, Enjoy Teaching William Faulkner by Rajini Srikanth
  • Approaches and Methods
  • Tracing Racial Assumptions: Teaching "That Evening Sun" by Doreen Fowler
  • "Handy" Ways to Teach "That Evening Sun" by Charles A. Peek
  • "Who Says What About Whom to Whom?": Teaching the Fourth Section of The Sound and The Fury by Stephen Hahn
  • "Words That Don't Fit":As I Lay Dying and Gracilianos Ramos's Barren Lives by Catarina Edinger
  • Faulkner, Cather, and "Lost Ladies" by Mary McAleer Balkun
  • "The Invention of Sunday": Eloquence and Counter-Eloquence in Light in August by James D. Bloom
  • Entering the Dark House: Teaching Absalom, Absalom! through Citizen Kane by John N. Duvall
  • Teaching The Unvanquished by Veronica Makowsky and Bradley Johnson
  • Reading Faulkner Pragmatically: The Hamlet and Willam James by David H.Evans
  • Teaching Go Down Moses: Was,Faulkner's "Nigger Stories," and Now by Arthur F. Kinney
  • Teaching "The Bear" as an Artifact of Frontier Mythology by Peter Alan Froehlich
  • Teaching Intruder in the Dust through Its Political and Historical Context by Robert W. Hamblin
  • "The Sum of Your Ancestry":Cultural Context and Intruder in the Dust by Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber
  • The Drama of Teaching Requiem for a Nun by Christopher LaLonde
  • Teaching Faulkner's "Case Histories" by David L. Vanderwerken
  • Coda
  • Tense Unresolve:Ending a Course on Faulkner by Terrell L. Tebbetts
LC Card Number: 00-057658
LCC Class: PS3511
Dewey Class: 813
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