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Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis looks at the range of
different crises currently affecting students - from climate change
and systemic racism, to the global pandemic. Addressing the impact
on students' ability and motivation to learn as well as their
emotional wellbeing, this volume guides teachers toward strategies
for introducing both canonical and contemporary literature in ways
that demonstrate the future relevance of sophisticated and targeted
literacy skills. These reading practices are invaluable for framing
and critically examining the challenges associated with crisis in
order to help cope with grief and as a means to impart the skills
needed to deal with crisis, such as adaptability, flexibility,
resilience, and resistance. Providing necessary background theory,
alongside practical case studies, the book addresses: Reading
practices for demonstrating how literature explores ethical issues
in specific and concrete rather than abstract terms Making
connections between disparate phenomena, and how literature
mobilises affect in individual and collective human lives
Supporting teachers in considering new, imaginative ways students
can learn from literary content and form in online or remote
learning environments as well as face to face Combining close and
distant reading with creative and hands-on strategies, presenting
the principles of a transitional pedagogy for a world in flux. This
book introduces teachers to methods for reading and studying
literature with the aim of strengthening and promoting resilience
and resourcefulness in and out of the literature classroom and
empower students as global citizens with local roles to play.
Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis looks at the range of
different crises currently affecting students - from climate change
and systemic racism, to the global pandemic. Addressing the impact
on students' ability and motivation to learn as well as their
emotional wellbeing, this volume guides teachers toward strategies
for introducing both canonical and contemporary literature in ways
that demonstrate the future relevance of sophisticated and targeted
literacy skills. These reading practices are invaluable for framing
and critically examining the challenges associated with crisis in
order to help cope with grief and as a means to impart the skills
needed to deal with crisis, such as adaptability, flexibility,
resilience, and resistance. Providing necessary background theory,
alongside practical case studies, the book addresses: Reading
practices for demonstrating how literature explores ethical issues
in specific and concrete rather than abstract terms Making
connections between disparate phenomena, and how literature
mobilises affect in individual and collective human lives
Supporting teachers in considering new, imaginative ways students
can learn from literary content and form in online or remote
learning environments as well as face to face Combining close and
distant reading with creative and hands-on strategies, presenting
the principles of a transitional pedagogy for a world in flux. This
book introduces teachers to methods for reading and studying
literature with the aim of strengthening and promoting resilience
and resourcefulness in and out of the literature classroom and
empower students as global citizens with local roles to play.
Nabokov's Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads is the
first book-length study to focus on Nabokov's relationship with his
heroines. Essays by distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the
multilayered and nomadic nature of Nabokov's women: their voice and
voicelessness, their absentness, the paradigm of power and
sacrifice within which they are situated, the paradox of their
unattainability, their complex relationship with textual borders,
the travel narrative, with the author himself. By design, Nabokov's
woman is often assigned a short-term tourist visa with a firm
expiration date. Her departure is facilitated by death or
involuntary absence, which watermarks her into the male
protagonist's narrative, granting him an artistic release or a gift
of self-understanding. When she leaves the stage, her portrait
remains ambiguous. She can be powerfully enigmatic, but not
self-actualized enough to be dynamic or, for even where the terms
of her existence are deeply considered or her image beheld
reverently, her recognition seems to be limited to the "Works
Cited" register of the male narrator's personal life. As a result,
Nabokov's texts often feature a nomadic woman who seems to live
without a narratorial homeland, papers of her own, or storytelling
privileges. This volume explores the "residency status" of
Nabokov's silent nomads-his fleeting lovers, witches, muses,
mermaids, and nymphets. As Nabokov scholars analyze the power
dynamic of the writer's narrative of male desire, they ponder-are
these female characters directionless wanderers or covert
operatives in the terrain of Nabokov's text? Whereas each essay
addresses a different aspect of Nabokov's artistic relationship
with the feminine, together they explore the politics of
representation, authorization, and voicelessness. This collection
offers new ways of reading and teaching Nabokov and is poised to
appeal to a wide range of student and scholarly audiences. Chapter
4, "Nabokov's Mermaid: 'Spring in Fialta'" by Elena
Rakhimova-Sommers, is not available in the ebook format due to
digital rights restrictions. You can find the earlier version of
the chapter in the journal Nabokov Studies.
Nabokov's Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads is the
first book-length study to focus on Nabokov's relationship with his
heroines. Essays by distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the
multilayered and nomadic nature of Nabokov's women: their voice and
voicelessness, their absentness, the paradigm of power and
sacrifice within which they are situated, the paradox of their
unattainability, their complex relationship with textual borders,
the travel narrative, with the author himself. By design, Nabokov's
woman is often assigned a short-term tourist visa with a firm
expiration date. Her departure is facilitated by death or
involuntary absence, which watermarks her into the male
protagonist's narrative, granting him an artistic release or a gift
of self-understanding. When she leaves the stage, her portrait
remains ambiguous. She can be powerfully enigmatic, but not
self-actualized enough to be dynamic or, for even where the terms
of her existence are deeply considered or her image beheld
reverently, her recognition seems to be limited to the "Works
Cited" register of the male narrator's personal life. As a result,
Nabokov's texts often feature a nomadic woman who seems to live
without a narratorial homeland, papers of her own, or storytelling
privileges. This volume explores the "residency status" of
Nabokov's silent nomads-his fleeting lovers, witches, muses,
mermaids, and nymphets. As Nabokov scholars analyze the power
dynamic of the writer's narrative of male desire, they ponder-are
these female characters directionless wanderers or covert
operatives in the terrain of Nabokov's text? Whereas each essay
addresses a different aspect of Nabokov's artistic relationship
with the feminine, together they explore the politics of
representation, authorization, and voicelessness. This collection
offers new ways of reading and teaching Nabokov and is poised to
appeal to a wide range of student and scholarly audiences. Chapter
4, "Nabokov's Mermaid: 'Spring in Fialta'" by Elena
Rakhimova-Sommers, is not available in the ebook format due to
digital rights restrictions. You can find the earlier version of
the chapter in the journal Nabokov Studies.
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