Contributor
Kleinhenz, Christopher, editor.
Edition Statement:Second edition.
ImprintNew York : Modern Language Association of America, 2020.
Descriptionxii, 300 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Part one. Materials -- Overview -- Italian editions of the Comedy -- English translations of the Comedy and the minor works -- The instructor's library -- Part two. Approaches -- Introduction: Dante's comedy in the classroom / Christopher Kleinhenz and Kristina Olson -- Textual traditions, language, and authority -- Dante, teacher of his reader / Teodolinda Barolini -- Teaching the Divine Comedy from its manuscripts / H. Wayne Storey and Isabella Magni -- Duels of interpretation: the Bible between Dante and the church / Ronald L. Martinez -- Following Virgil's lantern: teaching Dante in the light of antiquity / Elsa Filosa -- Dante casts shadows over the legacy of the classical past / Brenda Deen Schildgen -- Teaching Dante, Beatrice, and courtly love in the Divine Comedy / F. Regina Psaki -- Dante and the spectrum of medieval vernacular poetry; or, How Giacomo and Joyce, Brunetto and Eliot, and Bertran and Pound rhyme / Martin Eisner -- Transnational Dantes / Nick Havely -- Society and ethics -- Sodomite, homosexual, queer: teaching Dante LGBTQ / Gary Cestaro -- Conceptions of women and gender in the Comedy / Kristina Olson -- Teaching Dante's Divine comedy in a history course / Joanna Drell -- Dante and the papacy / George Dameron -- The quest for ethical self-reflection / Sherry Roush -- Teaching the theological dimension of Dante's Comedy / Paul J. Contino -- Dante, poet of loss / Peter S. Hawkins -- The reception of the Comedy -- Teaching Dante and the visual arts / Aida Audeh -- Reading Dante's Comedy with Giotto / Heather Webb -- Rewritings and relevance: teaching Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills alongside Dante's Inferno / Suzanne Manizza Roszak -- Teaching Dante through music / Francesco Ciabattoni -- Dante's afterlife in popular culture / Elizabeth Coggeshall - -From poem to PlayStation 3: teaching Dante with video games / Brandon K. Essary -- Instructional contexts and pedagogical strategies -- On selecting the "best" translation of Dante / Madison U. Sowell -- Damned rhetoric: teaching Dante's Inferno in translation to undergraduates / Suzanne Hagedorn -- Dante's Comedy as first-year seminar: from early engagement to self-reliance / Simone Marchesi -- Writing like Dante: understanding the Inferno through creative writing / Nicolino Applauso -- Scaffolding scholarly research for a senior-level course on Dante in translation / Katherin V. Haynes -- "Cliques in Hell": teaching Dante to nontraditional students / Susan Gorman -- Teaching Dante to high school seniors -- Jessica Levenstein -- Teaching Dante in prison / Ronald Herzman -- Beatrice in the tag cloud / Carol Chiodo.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-300).
Note:"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Dante's Divine Comedy. Includes considerations of textual traditions, translations, the work's relation to classical works, gender and LGBTQ themes, visual arts, music, popular culture, theology, video games, the papacy, and influence. Gives syllabus suggestions for high school, undergraduate, graduate, and creative writing courses, and prison settings."-- Provided by publisher.
