Modern French literary studies in the classroom : pedagogical strategies / edited by Charles J. Stivale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stivale, Charles J.

Series:

Teaching languages, literatures, and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--Study and teaching.

French literature.

French language--Study and teaching.

French language.

Physical Description:

vii, 270 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2004.

Contents:

Part 1 Instructing Readers: Linguistic and Literary Frameworks

Using Literature to Develop Foreign Language Proficiency: Toward an Interactive Classroom / Kate Paesani 13

Linguistic Contexts for Studying Literary Texts / David A. Powell 26

Reading dans Tous les Sens: Thoughts on Teaching Un coup de des / Gayle A. Levy 38

Fostering Creativity in Literary Study / Laurence M. Porter, Anita Alkhas, Larry Kuiper 48

Part 2 Exploring the Cultural: Pedagogical Devices

Culturally Uncompromising / Anne E. McCall 63

Collaboration Matters: Sparking a Connection between French Literary and Cultural Studies / Adrianna M. Paliyenko 74

Teaching Notre-Dame de Paris: A Classic Case / Kathryn M. Grossman 84

Potential Reader, Potential Writer: Global Simulations in the French Literature Classroom / Veronique Flambard-Weisbart 95

Teaching in the Margins of the Nineteenth Century / John Anzalone 107

Teaching Tours de France / Michael Garval 116

Part 3 Expanding Horizons: Interdisciplinary Challenges

From Jourdain to Trissotin: Speaking the Tongues of Theory / Charles J. Stivale 133

Loosening the Knot: Professing Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Studies / Garett R. Heysel 144

Cultural Diversity and Nineteenth-Century French Studies / Doris Y. Kadish 154

Sculpted Texts / Marie Lathers 164

French Identities in Film: An Interdisciplinary Approach to French Culture / Cynthia Running-Johnson, Judith F. Stone 174

Part 4 Stitching the Quilt: Institutional Demands, Curricular Strategies

Shifting Contexts: Choosing Texts to Fit Institutional, Programmatic, and Individual Needs / E. Nicole Meyer 187

Balancing Acts: French Studies and the Graduate and Undergraduate Classroom / Deborah A. Harter 198

Overseas Engagements: The Presence and Futures of Study Abroad / Gayle Zachmann 208

French Today: The Relevance of Undergraduate French Studies, to Teachers and Their Students / Nathalie Rachlin 218

Globalization, the New Regionalism, and Foreign Language Studies / Melanie Hawthorne 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-264) and index.

ISBN:

0873528042

0873528050

OCLC:

55730037