Approaches to Teaching Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

About the author

Laurence M. Porter is professor of French and comparative literature at Michigan State University, where he received the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1995. With Eugene F. Gray, he edited Approaches to Teaching Flaubert's Madame Bovary (MLA, 1995). He has contributed essays to the Approaches to Teaching World Literature volumes on Balzac and on Goethe. His THe Crisis of French Symbolism (Cornell UP, 1990) was nominated for the James Russell Lowell Prize. His Victor Huge (Twayne) appeared in 1999. Holding an NEH Research Fellowship for University Teachers in 1998, he is completing the comparative and theoretical book Happening, Knowing, and Telling: How Stories Work i Life and Art, Which includes examples from Jokes and popular culture.

Product details

• Authors: Porter, Laurence M. (EDT) Porter
• Assisted by: Laurence M. Porter (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2000
• EAN: 9780873527514
• ISBN: 978-0-87352-751-4
• No. of pages: 209
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World L
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology