Approaches to teaching Poe's prose and poetry /
edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale.
- New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2008.
- vii, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Approaches to teaching world literature, 104 1059-1133 ; .
- Approaches to teaching world literature ; 104. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-234) and indexes.
Preface to the series -- Preface to the volume -- Part One: Materials / Courses and texts -- Readings for students -- Readings for teachers -- Aids to teaching -- Part Two: Approaches -- Introduction / Literary, cultural and historical contexts -- Teaching Poe the magazinist / Poe the crime writer: historicizing "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / "Legitimate sources" and "legitimate results": surveying the social terror of "Usher" and "Ligeia" / "Some words with a mummy": teaching satire and the democratic threat in Poe's fiction / Teaching the mechanics of deception: "Hans Pfall", science fiction, and hoaxing in antebellum print culture / What difference does it make? Pym, plagiarism, and pop culture / Understanding the fear and love of death in three premature-burial stories: "The Premature Burial," "Morella," and "The fall of the House of Usher" / Teaching Poe's "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" as elegies / Mourning and eve(ning): teaching Poe's poetry / Rectangular obscenities: Poe, taste, and entertainment / Theoretical contexts -- A new-historicist approach to teaching "The Black Cat" / Reader response and the interpretation of "Hop-Frog," "How to Write a Blackwood Article," and "The Tell-Tale Heart" / Teaching "The Purloined Letter" and Lacan's Seminar: introducing students to psychoanalysis through Poe / The linguistic turn, first-person experience, and the terror of relevativism: "The Purloined Letter" and the affective limits of ratiocination / The "visionary" project: Poe and the textual condition / Teaching Poe's ironic approach to German learners of English: the didactic complexities of "The Cask of Amontillado" / Classroom contexts -- The Red Death's sway: teaching Poe and Stephen King in the American literature classroom / Teaching Pym in a survey of American literature / Trust thyself? Teaching Poe's murder tales in the context of transcendental self-reliance / Loving with a love that is more than love: Poe, the American dream, and the secondary school classroom / Poe, literary theory, and the English education course / Teaching Poe in the disability studies classroom: "The Man That Was Used Up" / Rediscovering Poe through the eyes of world authors: what do they see in him? / Teaching Poe's influence on Hitchcock: the example of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and Psycho / Poe in the comics / From page to stage: an interdisciplinary approach to teaching "The Philosophy of Composition" through performing "The Raven" / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale -- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale -- Scott Peeples -- Leonard Cassuto -- Duncan Faherty -- Edward Wesp -- Marcy J. Dinius -- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- Desir�ee Henderson -- Philip Edward Phillips -- Benjamin F. Fisher -- Stephen Rachman -- Lesley Ginsberg -- Brian Yothers -- Diane Long Hoeveler -- A. Samuel Kimball -- Derek Furr -- Erik Redling -- Tony Magistrale -- James R. Britton -- Paul Christian Jones -- Alison M. Kelly -- Donelle Ruwe -- William Etter -- Lois Davis Vines -- Dennis R. Perry -- M. Thomas Inge -- Rebecca Jaroff and Domenick Scudera.
Contains essays that discuss different techniques that teachers can use to aid students to better understand the work of Edgar Allan Poe.
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