Teaching the Text

Susanne Kappeler, Norman Bryson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781041367260
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040983225
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Teaching Arts & Humanities
• Index: Literature

First published in 1983, Teaching the Text explores the issue of teaching and the question of theory and its relation to practice. The chapters reflect the reality of teaching in a university English department, both for teachers and students, making clear the criteria of teaching, not only through the variety of contributors and approaches but also through the range of different texts and subjects offered.

The subjects covered include Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, The Duchess of Malfi, Milton's use of language, and William Collins' 'Ode to Evening'. There are essays on Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, on Emerson and Hawthorne, and on Dorothy Richardson's novels. Also discussed are Robert Musil's Törless, Sartre's La Nausée and the work of Gabriel García Márquez.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• 1 The public figure and the private eye: William Collins’ ‘Ode to Evening’
• 2 ‘So truth be in the field’: Milton’s use of language
• 3 History in Robert Musil’s Törless
• 4 Of stones and stories: Sartre’s La Nausée
• 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson: An introduction
• 6 Hawthorne’s illegible Letter
• 7 Passion, narrative and identity in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre
• 8 Writing for silence: Dorothy Richardson and the novel
• 9 Voices of patriarchy: Gabriel García Márquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude
• 10 ‘Opinion’ in Troilus and Cressida
• 11 Monologue in Macbeth
• 12 The Duchess of Malfi: A case study in the literary representation of women
• Notes on Contributors