This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume sets out a variety of approaches toteaching the period and aims to revitalize the connection between teaching and research. DERVAL CONROY is Lecturer in French at University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and Director of the university's 'Early Modern Research Strand'.She co-edited 'Racine: The Power and the Pleasure '(2001) and has also published journal articles and book chapters on early modern women's writing. . DANIELLE CLARKE is Associate Professor of English Renaissance Language and Literature at University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland. She has published widely on questions of gender, language and representation in the early modern period, is author of 'The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing' (2001), and co-editor of ''This double voice': Gendered Writing in Early Modern England' (2000). INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction; 'D.Clarke & D.Conroy - 'The Scholarship of Teaching the Early Modern: An Overview; 'D.Conroy - 'PART I: THE EARLY MODERN IN THE DIGITAL AGE - Renaissance Teaching and Learning: Humanist Pedagogy in the Digital Age and What it Might Teach Us; 'D.Clarke - 'Information Revolutions Past and Present, and Teaching the Early Modern Period; 'P.Dover -'PART II: THE EARLY MODERN AND ITS OTHERS - 'Other voices': The Early Modern Past in Provincial America; 'J.Dewald - 'Exploring the Limits of the Thinkable; 'S.Stuurman - 'Lobola, the Intombi, and the Soft-Porn Centaur: Teaching 'King Lear' in the Post-Apartheid South African Classroom; 'D.Seddon - 'Windows ofGold; 'R.Whelan - 'A Renaissance Woman Adrift in the World; 'M.E.Wiesner-Hanks - 'Worlds Apart, Worlds Away: Integrating the Early Modern in the Antipodes;'S.Broomhall - 'Paradise Regained? Teaching the Multicultural Renaissance; 'J.Grogan - 'Shakespeare and the Problem of the Early Modern Curriculum;' A.Hadfield - 'PART III: THE EARLY MODERN IN THE CONTEMPORARY CLASSROOM: COURSE DESIGN AND CLASSROOM PRACTICE - An Early Modern Challenge: Finding the Student In-Road; 'P.Cheney - 'Teaching Shakespeare Historically; 'M.Burnett - 'The Importance of Being Endogenous; 'A.Viala - 'Literature, Philosophy and Medicine: Strategies for an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Seventeenth Century; 'B.Höfer - 'Versailles; 'H.Goldwyn - 'Paradoxical Creativity: Using Censorship to Develop Critical Reading and Thinking; 'K.Waterson - 'T-shirt Day, Utopia and HenryVIII's Dating Service: Using Creative Assignments to Teach Early Modern History; 'C.Levin - 'The Importance of Boredom in Learning About the Early Modern; 'C.Sullivan - 'PART IV: PERFORMING THE EARLY MODERN - French Seventeenth-Century Theatre: Saying is Believing; 'H.Phillips - 'Teaching Early-Modern Spectacle through Film: Exploring Possibilities, Challenges and Pitfalls through a French Corpus; 'G.Spielmann - 'Relevance and its Discontents: Teaching Sofia Coppola's 'Marie Antoinette'; 'A.Wygant - 'Presence, Performance and Critical Pleasure: Play and Prerequisites in Research and Teaching; 'C.Biet - 'Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-28451-7
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 10/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés