Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird : new essays / edited by Michael J. Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, Michael J.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2011.

Place of Publication:

2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To commemorate To Kill a Mockingbird's 50th anniversary, Meyer has assembled a collection of new essays that celebrate this enduring work of American literature. These essays approach the novel from educational, legal, social, and thematic perspectives.

Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; Editor's Note; Foreword; Part 1; Educational Approaches; Chapter 1; What Teachers (Don't) Say: A Grounded Theory Approach to Online Discussions of To Kill a Mockingbird; Chapter 2; Multimedia Mockingbird: Teaching Harper Lee's Novel Using Technology; Chapter 3; A Soundtrack Approach to Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird; Part 2; To Kill a Mockingbird and the Justice System; Chapter 4; The Courthouse Ring: Atticus Finch and the Limits of Southern Liberalism1; chapter 5; To Kill a Mockingbird: Fifty Years of Influence on the Legal Profession; chapter 6

Bending the Law: The Search for Justice and Moral PurposePart 3; Themes, Imagery, and Structural Choices; chapter 7; Unlikely Duos: Paired Characters in To Kill a Mockingbird; chapter 8; On Reading To Kill a Mockingbird: Fifty Years Later; chapter 9; Spooks, Masks, Haints, and Things That Go Bump in the Night: Fear and Halloween Imagery in To Kill a Mockingbird; chapter 10; "A Rigid and Time-Honored Code": Sport and Identity in To Kill a Mockingbird; chapter 11; Symbolic Justice: Reading Symbolism in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird; chapter 12

Walking in Another's Skin: Failure of Empathy in To Kill a MockingbirdPart 4; Social Concerns; chapter 13; "Enable Us to Look Back": Performance and Disability in To Kill a Mockingbird; chapter 14; "Just One Kind of Folks:" The Normalizing Power of Disability in To Kill a Mockingbird; chapter 15; To Kill a Mockingbird: Perceptions of "the Other"; Related Readings and Publications; About the Editor and Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-41649-4

9798765185322

1-282-92240-8

9786612922404

0-8108-7723-6

OCLC:

759839836