Approaches to Teaching Coleridge's Poetry and Prose

by Matlak, Richard E.

• ISBN13: 9780873527002
• ISBN10: 0873527003
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-06-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series
Preface to the Volume
Materials
Introduction: Coleridge, Patron Teacher	p. 3
What We Teach and How	p. 3
The Choice of Texts	p. 5
The Teacher's Library	p. 8
Student Reading	p. 13
Audiovisual Materials	p. 13
Approaches
Introduction: Coleridge, Patron Student	p. 17
The Many Coleridges	p. 19
Coleridge and British Society	p. 31
On Tracking Coleridge: The Student as Sleuth	p. 42
Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Coleridge	p. 49
Truth and Pleasure in Wordsworth's Preface and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria	p. 57
Building Domes in Air: "Kubla Khan" in the Introductory Literary Criticism Class	p. 63
Trembling into Thought: Approaching Coleridge through "The Eolian Harp"	p. 69
Teaching the Coleridge-Wordsworth Dialogue	p. 76
What Comes of "Dejection"?	p. 83
Vision and Revision in "Kubla Khan"	p. 89
Forty Questions to Ask of Ancient Mariner	p. 102
The Questions of Christabel	p. 110
Teaching Christabel: Gender and Genre	p. 121
Teaching Ancient Mariner and Christabel to Students of Criminal Justice	p. 128
Teaching the Fragment: Christabel and "Kubla Khan"	p. 134
Coleridge and the Mysterious (M)other	p. 147
Coleridge's Mystery Poems and Their Critics	p. 158
Primary Coleridge Texts and Abbreviations	p. 168
Books and Articles	p. 168
Audiovisual Aids	p. 179
Index of Names	p. 181
Index of Works by Coleridge	p. 185
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