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English Literature: Victorians and Moderns
Author(s): Dr. James Sexton, Camosun College
Updated: Jul 30, 2019
Description: English Literature: Victorians and Moderns is an anthology with a difference. In addition to providing annotated teaching editions of many of the most frequently-taught classics of Victorian and Modern poetry, fiction and drama, it also provides a series of guided research casebooks which make available numerous published essays from open access books and journals, as well as several reprinted critical essays from established learned journals such as English Studies in Canada and the Aldous Hux...[more]
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Naming the Unnamable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations
Author(s): Michelle Bonczek Evory. Western Michigan University
Updated: Jun 13, 2019
Description: Informed by a writing philosophy that values both spontaneity and discipline, Michelle Bonczek Evory’s Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations offers practical advice and strategies for developing a writing process that is centered on play and supported by an understanding of America’s rich literary traditions. With consideration to the psychology of invention, Bonczek Evory provides students with exercises aimed to make writing in its early stages a form of play that ...[more]
Open Modernisms Anthology Builder
Author(s): Stephen Ross, University of Victoria, Matt Huculak, University of Victoria
Updated: Jun 13, 2019
Description: Open Modernisms is an open, Creative-Commons-licensed online platform that allows teachers and scholars to build custom anthologies of out-of-copyright primary materials for the period 1850–1950. . It uses a custom-built Islandora module to host a library of documents from which users can select and rearrange in whatever order they like; add their own notes and introductory or contextualizing materials; and output in a numbered sequence of files for digital distribution and/or printing. The si...[more]
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Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity
Author(s): Dr. Theodore L. Steinberg, SUNY Fredonia
Updated: Jun 13, 2019
Description: Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity attempts to make the study of literature more than simply another school subject that students have to take. At a time when all subjects seem to be valued only for their testability, this book tries to show the value of reading and studying literature, even earlier literature. It shows students, some of whom will themselves become teachers, that literature actually has something to say to them. Furthermore, it shows that literature is meant to be enjoyed...[more]
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