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This book is a collection of essays offering a wide range of approaches to teaching with commonplace books. In the medieval period and beyond, commonplace books promoted a blend of excerpting, memorization, creative writing, and journaling, making them the analogue equivalent to modern-day digital journaling, bookmarking, and note-taking tools. Covering a variety of methods for introducing students to the medieval and Renaissance reading practice known as commonplacing, this volume provides instructors with concrete guidelines for using commonplace books as a teaching and learning tool. The enclosed essays provide a point of reference for best practices as well as concrete models for teaching and learning with commonplace books, helping instructors develop more student-centred, inclusive curricula.

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Author:   Sarah E. Parker (Associate Professor of English, Jacksonville University) ,  Andie Silva (Assistant Professor of English, York College, CUNY)
Publisher:   Arc Humanities Press
Imprint:   Arc Humanities Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781802701500

ISBN 10:   1802701508
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   30 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

""Introduction,"" by Andie Silva and Sarah E. Parker Part 1: Why Teach Using Commonplace Books? Chapter 1: ""Resources, Materials, and In-Class Activities for Introducing Undergraduates to Commonplacing as Praxis,"" by Nicole Hagstrom-Schmidt Chapter 2: ""Rebuilding the Brit Lit I Survey around the Commonplace Book,"" by Dana Schumacher-Schmidt Chapter 3: ""Student Commonplace Books and Verse Miscellanies, ca. 1516–2022,"" by Joshua Eckhardt Chapter 4: ""Teaching with Commonplace Books in the Age of #RelatableContent,"" by Vimala C. Pasupathi Part 2: Adapting the Commonplace Book Assignment Chapter 5: ""Productive Disruptions: Using Commonplace Books to Resist Eurocentrism,"" by Andie Silva Chapter 6: ""Encoding Early Modern Commonplace Books in the Classroom,"" by Laura Estill Chapter 7: ""Opportunities with Omeka: Commonplacing on the Digital Platform,"" by Alison Harper Chapter 8: ""Poetry at Play: Commonplace Books in a Game-Themed Literature Survey,"" by Nora L. Corrigan Coda Chapter 9: ""Managing the Commonplace Book Assignment: Putting this Volume to Practice,"" by Sarah E. Parker Select Bibliography

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Sarah Parker is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Gender + Sexuality at Jacksonville University. Her research interests include Renaissance literature, history of medicine, and history of the book. Her work has recently appeared in History of Science and History of European Ideas. Andie Silva is Associate Professor of English at York College, CUNY and of Digital Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on digital pedagogy, digital humanities, and history of the book. She is the author of The Brand of Print: Marketing Paratexts in the Early English Book Trade (2019) and co-editor, with Scott Schofield, of Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Method and Praxis (2023).

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