Description:
Focusing primarily on undergraduate teaching, this collection of eighteen pioneering essays describes courses interweaving literature with music and the visual arts. Each essay is supplemented by a syllabus of the course; an appendix offers six additional syllabi.
Brief description: Jean-Pierre Barricelli was Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside. His scholarly achievements included 17 books and over 100 articles which ranged over such topics as the Italian greats Leopardi and Dante, as well as the interrelationships between literature, music, drama, and law.
Review Quotes:
"Every humanist interested in teaching and in enhancing its variety should have this book at hand." --Modern Language Journal
"A gold mine... The courses described are excellent examples of what we know is possible when we teach imaginatively." --Modern Language Journal