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Other authors / contributors: | Dujardin, Gwynn, editor.
Lang, James M., editor.
Staunton, John A., 1969- editor.
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ISBN: | 9781946684110 1946684112 9781946684080 9781946684097 1946684082 1946684090 9781946684103 1946684104
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 12, 2018).
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Summary: | "Teaching the Literature Survey Course makes the case for maintaining--even while re-imagining and re-inventing--the place of the survey as a transformative experience for literature students. Through essays both practical and theoretical, the collection presents survey teachers with an exciting range of new strategies for energizing their teaching and engaging their students in this vital encounter with our evolving literary traditions. From mapping early English literature to a team-based approach to the American survey, and from multimedia galleries to a "blank syllabus," contributors propose alternatives to the traditional emphasis on lectures and breadth of coverage. The volume is at once a set of practical suggestions for working teachers (including sample documents like worksheets and syllabi) and a provocative engagement with the question of what introductory courses can and should be"--
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Other form: | Print version: Teaching the literature survey course. First edition. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2018 9781946684080
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