Approaches to Teaching Lafayette's,9780873527460

Approaches to Teaching Lafayette's

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ISBN13: 9780873527460
ISBN10: 0873527461
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-11-01
Publisher(s): Modern Language Assn of Amer
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Summary

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) 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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series vii
Preface to the Volume ix
Introduction: La Princesse de Cleves and the History of the French Novel 1(10)
Part One: Materials
Faith E. Beasley
Katharine Ann Jensen
Editions
French Editions
11(1)
English Translations
12(3)
The Instructor's Library
15(6)
Background Studies
15(2)
Critical Studies
17(4)
Aids to Teaching
21(4)
Part Two: Approaches
Introduction
25(5)
Mirroring Society: La Princesse de Cleves in Context
Lafayette's First Readers: The Quarrel of La Princesse de Cleves
30(8)
Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
Jansenist Resonances in La Princesse de Cleves
38(9)
Louis MacKenzie
Court Society and Economies of Exchange
47(7)
Harriet Stone
Virtue and Civility in La Princesse de Cleves
54(6)
Marie-Paule Laden
Masculinity in La Princesse de Cleves
60(8)
Lewis C. Seifert
Making Sense of the Ending: Passion, Virtue, and Female Subjectivity
68(8)
Katharine Ann Jensen
Themes and Structures
The Mother-Daughter Subtext in La Princesse de Cleves
76(9)
Michele Longino
Conflicting Emotions: Personal and Cultural Vraisemblance in La Princesse de Cleves
85(7)
Inge Crosman Wimmers
Getting Inside: Digression, Entanglement, and the Internal Narratives
92(10)
Rae Beth Gordon
Mapping La Princesse de Cleves: A Spatial Approach
102(7)
Eva Posfay
Seeing and Being Seen: Visual Codes and Metaphors in La Princesse de Cleves
109(11)
Julia V. Douthwaite
Truly Inimitable? Repetition in La Princesse de Cleves
120(7)
Louise K. Horowitz
Specific Teaching Contexts
Teaching La Princesse de Cleves in Translation
127(12)
Faith E. Beasley
What's Love Got to Do with It? The Issue of Vulnerability in an Anthological Approach
139(8)
James F. Gaines
Romance and Novel in La Princesse de Cleves
147(11)
Kathleen Wine
Reading La Princesse de Cleves with the Heptameron
158(7)
John D. Lyons
Mediation of Desire in La Princesse de Cleves
165(10)
Anne Callahan
Teaching La Princesse de Cleves in a Women's Studies Course
175(8)
Elizabeth J. MacArthur
Appendixes
1. The Quarrel over La Princesse de Cleves: Passages from Valincour, Letters, and Charnes, Conversations
183(9)
2. Undergraduate Study Guide
192(4)
Genealogy, La Princesse de Cleves 196(1)
Notes on Contributors 197(3)
Survey Participants 200(1)
Works Cited 201(8)
Index 209

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