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Teaching multiple approaches to a single novel.
Abstract
To help students develop a range of interpretive techniques, I introduce the assumptions and strategies of contemporary criticism; the students and I then explore possible uses of these critical approaches in writing about Ilona Karmel's Holocaust novel, An Estate of Memory. I work closely with students as they design a web-based project exploring the potential of five approaches to one of the assigned novels.
Introduction
The interpretive skills that students bring with them from high school and from their first two years of college have proved fully adequate in the literature courses that I teach at Mississippi State ...
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