TY - BOOK AU - Irvine, Colin C., ed. TI - Teaching the novel across the curriculum: a handbook for educators SN - 9780313348969 U1 - 808.30711 PY - 2008/// CY - Westport PB - Greenwood Press KW - Youth--Books and reading KW - Critical thinking KW - Fiction--Study and teaching N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-334) and index; Introduction / Colin Irvine -- Section One : Teaching the Novel in General Education Classes -- Reading Wollstonecraft's Maria from Cover to Cover and Back Again : The Novel in the General Education Course / Amy Branam -- A Nabokovian Treasure Hunt : Pale Fire for Beginners / Monique van den Berg -- Teaching the Dog's Tale : Vere's "moral dilemma involving aught of the tragic" in Billy Budd / Peter Kratzke -- Section Two : Using the Novel to Teach Multiculturalism -- Using the Novel to Teach Multiculturalism / Michelle Loris -- Teaching Chinua Achebe's Novel Things Fall Apart in Survey of English Literature II / Eric Sterling -- Implicating Knowledge with Practice, Intercultural Communication Education with the Novel / Yuko Kawai -- Teaching Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman in a Comparative Literature Classroom / Lan Dong -- "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" : The Polyphony of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Stephanie Li -- Section Three : Teaching the Novel in Literature Classes -- Written Images : Using Visual Literacy to Unravel the Novel / Ricia Anne Chansky -- Reading Right to Left : How Defamiliarization Helps Students Read a Familiar Genre / Christine M. Doran -- Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, Creative Writing and Teaching the Modernist Novel in the Introductory-Level Literature Classroom / Stephen E. Severn -- A.S. Byatt's Finishing School : Literary Criticism as Simulation / Alan Ramón Clinton -- Section Four : Teaching the Novel in the Humanities -- Teach the Conflict : Using Critical Thinking to Evaluate Anthony Swofford's Jarhead / John Bruni -- Novel Truths : The Things They Carried and Student Narratives about History / John Lennon -- Questioning Ethics : Incorporating the Novel into Ethics Courses / Rachel McCoppin -- Teaching Dickens's Hard Times in a General Education Humanities Course / Marshall Toman -- Novels in History Classes : Teaching the Historical Context / Gregory Schroeder -- Section Five : The Novel and the Social, Behavioral, and Political Sciences -- Reading Our Social Worlds : Utilizing Novels in Introductory Sociology Courses / Kristina B. Wolff -- Science Fiction as Social Fact : Review and Evaluation of the Use of Fiction in an Introductory Sociology Class / Peter Nieckarz, Jr. -- Insights from the Novel : Good Citizens in Social Contexts / Janine DeWitt and Margeurite Rippy -- Using The Autobiography of Malcolm X to Teach Introductory Sociology / Brent Harger and Tim Hallet -- Stories in Psychology : Sensation and Perception / Alexis Grosofsky -- Usefulness of Lord of the Flies in the Social Psychology Classroom / Douglas P. Simeone -- Demystifying social capital through Zola's Germinal / Lauretta Conklin Frederking -- Section Six : The Novel and the Professional Studies -- The Use of Contemporary Novels as a Method of Teaching Social Work Micro Practice / Pamela Black and Marta M. Miranda -- Multicultural Novels in Education / Elizabeth Berg Leer -- Theories and (Legal) Practice for Teachers in Training / Colin C. Irvine ER -