Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy

Dante's Divine Comedy can compel and shock readers: it combines intense emotion and psychological insight with medieval theology and philosophy. This volume will help instructors lead their students through the many dimensions - historical, literary, religious, and ethical - that make the work so rewarding and enduringly relevant yet so difficult.

Part 1, "Materials," gives instructors an overview of the important scholarship on the Divine Comedy. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," describe ways to teach the work in the light of its contemporary culture and ours. Various teaching situations (a freshman seminar, a creative writing class, high school, a prison) are considered, and the many available translations are discussed.

Zusammenfassung

Dante's Divine Comedy can compel and shock readers: it combines intense emotion and psychological insight with medieval theology and philosophy. This volume will help instructors lead their students through the many dimensions historical, literary, religious, and ethical that make the work so rewarding and enduringly relevant yet so difficult.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Christopher Kleinhenz (Herausgeber), Kristina Olson (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Modern Language Association of America
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781603294270
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-427-0
• Seiten: 300
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Gewicht: 440 g
• Serien: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.; Approaches to Teaching World Literature
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Schulpädagogik, Didaktik, Methodik; Fremdsprachenerwerb, Fremdsprachendidaktik, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching