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If you teach it, they will read : literature's life lessons for today's students / John V. MacLean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacLean, John V.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language arts (Secondary).
- Reading (Secondary).
- English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Secondary).
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- To teach literature is to discuss the eternal questions that human beings have juggled in all ages and in all places. This book helps to present those discussions in terms that resonate with today's students.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Why Read Good Books?; Chapter One. The Search for Identity: Cyrano de Bergerac and A Lesson before Dying; Chapter Two. Rite of Passage: The Odyssey, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Heart of Darkness; Chapter Three. The Quest: Arthurian Legends, Siddhartha, and Song of Solomon; Chapter Four. I Want a Hero: The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and Hamlet; Chapter Five. The Anti-Hero: Native Son and The Stranger; Chapter Six. Literary Devices; Chapter Seven. A Woman's Place: Medea and A Doll's House
- Chapter Eight. The Little Things that Matter: Emma and Pride and PrejudiceChapter Nine. Dealing with Loss: ""The Wanderer,"" the Hemingway Hero, and The Tempest; Chapter Ten. The Need to Dream: Of Mice and Men, The Glass Menagerie, and The Great Gatsby; Chapter Eleven. The Weight of the Past: Oedipus and The Piano Lesson; Chapter Twelve. Private Morality and Second Chances: The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, and The Kite Runner; Chapter Thirteen. Throwing the Good Away: Macbeth, Fences, and Death of a Salesman; Chapter Fourteen. Love, Actually: Twelfth Night, Othello, and Wuthering Heights
- Chapter Fifteen. Some Great Deed: The IliadChapter Sixteen. Final Thoughts; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-28431-4
- 1-282-71405-8
- 9786612714054
- 1-60709-779-6
- OCLC:
- 663080289
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