Approaches to Teaching Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale and Other Works

by Wilson, Sharon R.; Friedman, Thomas B.; Hengen, Shannon

• ISBN13: 9780873527361
• ISBN10: 0873527364
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-07-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series
Preface to the Volume	p. 1
Materials
"Who Is This Woman?"	p. 28
A Feminist by Another Name: Atwood and the Canadian Canon	p. 33
Satire: The No-Woman's Land of Literary Modes	p. 43
Beyond Violent Dualities: Atwood in Postcolonial Contexts	p. 49
Atwood's Intertextual and Sexual Politics	p. 55
Using Atwood's Survival in an Interdisciplinary Canadian Studies Course	p. 63
Themes of Identity in Atwood's Poems and "Rape Fantasies": Using The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women	p. 70
The Trickster Text: Teaching Atwood's Works in Creative Writing Classes	p. 77
Reading as Rehearsal in a Communication Class: Comic Voicings in Atwood's Poetry	p. 84
A Practical Exercise: Popular Culture and Gender Construction in Surfacing and Bodily Harm	p. 90
"Hypocrite Lecteuse! Ma Semblable! Ma Soeur!": On Teaching Murder in the Dark	p. 99
Understanding Contemporary American Culture through The Handmaid's Tale: A Sociology Class	p. 109
Dystopia's Point of No Return: A Team-Taught Utopia Class	p. 114
A Feminist and Psychoanalytic Approach in a Women's College	p. 122
The End of the World and Other Things: Life before Man and The Handmaid's Tale	p. 128
Atwood's Recontruction of Folktales: The Handmaid's Tale and "Bluebeard's Egg"	p. 135
Teaching Literature through Film: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Surfacing and The Handmaid's Tale	p. 140
The Journals of Susanna Moodie as Life Writing	p. 146
Atwood's You Are Happy: Power Politics, Gender Roles, and the Transformation of Myth	p. 153
Atwood's Female Quest-Romance: A Psychoanalysis Approach to Surfacing	p. 161
A Writer for All Theories: Using Atwood's Works to Teach Critical Theory and Praxis	p. 167
Cat's Eye as a Reenvisioned Portrait of the Artist: A Visual, Canadian Studies, and Feminist Approach	p. 174
Negotiating Wilderness Tips	p. 180
Contributors and Survey Participants	p. 187
Works Cited: Books and Articles	p. 189
Works Cited: Audiovisual Aids	p. 209
Index	p. 211
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