The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability, the silent or silenced other, sympathy, and forgiveness in an allusive and detached prose that avoids obvious answers or easy ethical reassurance....

"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, including Nature, "Self-Reliance," "Friendship," "Experience," "The Divinity School Address," "The American Scholar," and other essays, speeches, and poems. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses in literature, creative writing, religion, media, environmental studies, and digital humanities"--