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Article: Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's 'Decameron'.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's 'Decameron'. Ed. by JAMES H. MCGREGOR. New York: Modern Languages Association of America. 2000. 207 pp. $37.50 ($18 paperbound).
This is one of a substantial series of MLA publications, aimed primarily at undergraduate courses, outlining teaching approaches (the plural is deliberate) to World Literature texts. It is good, therefore, to see the Decameron up there with the rest. The volume is divided unequally into two sections. The first, shorter section by James McGregor himself is a survey of materials (texts, critical studies, background reading, electronic and audiovisual resources). Based on a survey of teachers (listed at the ...