Approaches to Teaching Melville's Moby-Dick

by Martin Bickman

Book Overview

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087352490X
• ISBN13: 9780873524902
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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About This Book

Table of Contents Prefaces Part One -- Materials Extracts Editions Critical and Background Reading Biography, Reference, Bibliography Aids to Teaching Part Two -- Approaches Approaching the Text: Flux and Form (3 articles) The Classroom Situation: Students and Teachers, Strategies and Structures (11 articles) Part Three -- Participants in Survey of Moby Dick Instructors Works Cited Index

Excelent! Fascinating, informative, and readable.

This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. It is both interesting and informative, as well as quite readable. Clearly a scholarly work, it stimulates though.