Approaches to Teaching the Works of D. H. Lawrence

Lawrence's forceful language, imagery, and rhythms can make readers feel they are being attacked or challenged. These essays describe ways to encourage students to read his works more closely, accurately, and sensitively and to learn how to complicate their reading.

About the author

M. Elizabeth Sargent is associate professor of English and writing coordinator at the University of Alberta. She is (as M. Elizabeth Wallace) editor of Part-Time Academic Employment in the Humanities (MLA, 1984). She publishes on the teaching of writing and on Lawrence. Her work has appeared in the journals College English, ADE Bulletin, Profession, Women's Review of Books, and the D. H. Lawrence Review and in the books The Challenge of D. H. Lawrence (U of Wisconsin P, 1990), D. H. Lawrence in Italy and England (Macmillan, 1999), and Writing the Body in D. H. Lawrence (Greenwood, 2001).
Garry Watson is professor of English at the University of Alberta. He is author of The Leavises, the Social, and the Left (Bryn Mill, 1976), His recent publications include essays on political correctness, in English Studies in Canada; on Melville and Conrad, in Conrad, James, and Other Relations (Maria Curie Sklodowska U, 1998); on the western, in Cineaction; on Lawrence and religion, in Etudes Lawrenciennes (2000); and on Lawrence and the abject body, in Writing the Body in D. H. Lawrence: Essays on Language, Representation, and Sexuality, edited by Paul Poplawski (Greenwood, 2001.)

Summary

Lawrence's forceful language, imagery, and rhythms can make readers feel they are being attacked or challenged. These essays describe ways to encourage students to read his works more closely, accurately, and sensitively and to learn how to complicate their reading.

Product details

• Authors: M. Elizabeth (EDT) Sargent
• Assisted by: M Elizabeth Sargent (Editor), M. Elizabeth Sargent (Editor), Garry Watson (Editor), Professor Garry Watson (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2001
• EAN: 9780873527644
• ISBN: 978-0-87352-764-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature (Paperback); Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.; Approaches to Teaching World Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology