| Description |
vii, 223 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Approaches to teaching world literature ; [55] |
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Approaches to teaching world literature ; 55.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-218) and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Materials / Richard J. Schneider -- Pt. 2. Approaches. Walden and the construction of the American renaissance / Linck C. Johnson -- Thoreau and Anglo-European romanticism / Frederick Garber -- "Extra vagant" education : teaching Walden in the context of transcendentalism / T.S. McMillin -- "Where I lived" : the environs of Walden / William Howarth -- The many paths to and from Walden / Richard Lebeaux -- Reader responses to Walden : a study of undergraduate reading patterns / Richard Dillman -- Teaching Thoreau as a visionary thinker / Robert Franciosi -- Reading the garden : excursions into Walden / Frank J. McGill -- Reclaiming Thoreau's humor for the classroom / Michael D. West -- "What are you doing out there?" : teaching Thoreau to college freshmen / Stanley S. Blair -- Walden and awakening : Thoreau in a sophomore American literature survey course / Scott Slovic -- Teaching Walden as transcendental strip tease art / Annette M. Woodlief -- The privileged protester : teaching Thoreau to two-year college students / Deborah T. Meem -- "Baker Farm" and historicism : the rainbow's arch / Leonard N. Neufeldt -- Walden : text, context, pretext / Henry Golemba -- The genres of a week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Stephen Adams -- "Civil disobedience" and the problem of Thoreau's "peaceable revolution" / Michael Meyer -- "Civil disobedience" (or is it "resistance to civil government"?) in a composition course / Laraine Fergenson -- "Life without principle" and Cape Cod as foils to Walden / Richard J. Schneider -- Thoreau's "Walking" and the ecological imperative / David M. Robinson -- Teaching Thoreau's Journal / H. Daniel Peck -- Thoreau in the wilderness / David G. Fuller -- "Monarch of all I survey" : Thoreau among engineering students / Wesley T. Mott -- Sauntering after sixty : Thoreau in the elderhostel program / Gordon V. Boudreau. |
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Study and teaching.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Walden.
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Walden Woods (Mass.) -- In literature.
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Solitude in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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| Added Author |
Schneider, Richard J.
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| ISBN |
087352733X cloth |
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0873527348 paperback |
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