Essays on teaching Morrison as novelist and public intellectual Toni Morrison's novels have been frequently taught and frequently honored, earning the Nobel Prize and other awards. They are also frequently challenged and banned, a fact that highlights their power. Centering Black people and their lives, Morrison's writing pushes readers to ......
Essays on teaching Morrison as novelist and public intellectual Toni Morrison's novels have been frequently taught and frequently honored, earning the Nobel Prize and other awards. They are also frequently challenged and banned, a fact that highlights their power. Centering Black people and their lives, Morrison's writing pushes readers to ......
New frontiers in American fiction After 1945, women, people of color, and queer writers remade American short fiction, rejecting the modernist dogmas of impersonality and universalism that had long excluded their perspectives from mainstream literature. Since then, authors have continued to investigate identity and align their work with the ......
New frontiers in American fiction After 1945, women, people of color, and queer writers remade American short fiction, rejecting the modernist dogmas of impersonality and universalism that had long excluded their perspectives from mainstream literature. Since then, authors have continued to investigate identity and align their work with the ......
Romantic entanglements expose problematic gender roles Newlyweds Alvaro and Blanca vacation with two other couples on the northern coast of France, where misunderstandings, trickery, and flirtations ensue. Alvaro wants a cosmopolitan life full of travel and excitement, but the more traditional Blanca yearns for stability. Meanwhile, ......
Romantic entanglements expose problematic gender roles Newlyweds Alvaro and Blanca vacation with two other couples on the northern coast of France, where misunderstandings, trickery, and flirtations ensue. Alvaro wants a cosmopolitan life full of travel and excitement, but the more traditional Blanca yearns for stability. Meanwhile, ......
New avenues for teaching Macbeth Shakespeare's Macbeth combines the themes of ambition, assassination, guilt, and the supernatural in ways that continue to provoke questions about political legitimacy, the construction of national and personal identities, and the role of violence in defining masculinity. This insightful and ......
New avenues for teaching Macbeth Shakespeare's Macbeth combines the themes of ambition, assassination, guilt, and the supernatural in ways that continue to provoke questions about political legitimacy, the construction of national and personal identities, and the role of violence in defining masculinity. This insightful and ......
Modern Irish poetry beyond Yeats and Heaney Interpreting modern Irish poetry within a network of national and cultural identities and in the context of economic and demographic changes of the past fifty years, this volume looks at Irish poetry anew and offers instructors guidance on refashioning the standard Yeats-to-Heaney survey course ......
