Beyond the Culture Tours: Studies in Teaching and Learning With Culturally Diverse Texts

by Sarah Jordan, Gladys Cruz, Steven Ostrowski, et al.

Book Overview

In calling this book Beyond the Culture Tours, the authors bring the reader's attention to a set of issues in the teaching of literature and culture. The Culture Tour is an old concept in the West, dating back to the seventeenth century. The educated young man -- it was an exclusively male project at first -- was expected to round off his education with the Grand Tour. This meant a visit to the major sites on the European continent, particularly Greece...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805826122
• ISBN13: 9780805826128
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.4"