Approaches to teaching "Desirée Baby" as a prototype short story
- Castillo García, Gema Soledad (ed. lit.)
- Cabellos Castilla, María Rosa (ed. lit.)
- Sánchez Jiménez, Juan Antonio (ed. lit.)
- Carlisle Espínola, Vincent (ed. lit.)
Éditorial: Editorial Universidad de Alcalá ; Universidad de Alcalá
ISBN: 8481387096
Année de publication: 2006
Pages: 428-436
Type: Chapitre d'ouvrage
Résumé
The purpose of this paper is to give an account of my current experience teaching “Désirée’s Baby” in a variety of educational settings. Up to the present I have used Kate Chopin’s short story for interaction with the following kinds of audience: 1) large numbers of undergraduates registered in a distance education survey course on “American Literature to 1900”, 2) small groups of PhD students enrolled in a course on “American Short Fiction”, and 3) graduates attending a summer-school program on “Critical Analysis of Literary Texts in English”. Each of the above-mentioned courses requires a different didactic approach, and in all three considerable profit has been derived from the close textual reading of this prototypical short story, which was met with success upon publication in 1893, and which has often been anthologized and has remained extremely popular over the years.