Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature

Presenting web sites from around the world covering much of the world's literature, this book provides creative and interesting thinking activities to enhance student understanding of literature and culture and to promote critical thinking. This book will be very useful to teachers of world history and literature at the senior high school and undergraduate level. Part of a well reviewed series of titles Using Internet Primary Sources to Promote Critical Thinking, carries on the tradition of excellence in instructional tools. Grades 9-12.

Auteur

Roxanne M. Kent-Drury is an Associate Professor in the Literature and Language Department at Northern Kentucky University, where she teaches courses in early world literature, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century transatlantic and British literature, and the literature of early exploration and travel. She is also a frequent reviewer for Addison-Wesley-Longman, most recently on its cultural studies-based anthologies of British and world literature. Her publications include articles on exploration and travel, eighteenth-century drama and performance, and professional writing. Most recently, she co-authored a book essay with Gordon Sayre, Robinson Crusoe's Parodic Intertextuality, for the Modern Language Association's Teaching Robinson Crusoe, forthcoming in March 2005.