PREFACE TO THE SERIES
In The Art of Teaching Gilbert Highet wrote， \"Bad teaching wastes a great
deal of effort， and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy
and happiness.\" All too man~ teachers have failed in their work， Highet ar-
gued， simply \"because they have not thought about it.\" We hope that the Ap-
proaches to Teaching World Literature series， sponsored by the Modern
Language Association s Committee on Teaching and Related Professional Ac-
ti ~ities， will not only improve the craft-as well as the art-of teaching but
also encourage serious and continuing discussion of the aims and methods
of teaching literature.
The principal objective of the series is to collect within each volume differ-
ent points of view on teaching a specific literary work， a literary tradition，
or a writer widely taught at the undergraduate level. The preparation of each volume begins with a wide-rang[rag survey of instructors， thus enabling us
to include in the volume the p~losophies and approaches， thoughts and
methods of scores of experienced teachers. The result is a sourcebook of
material， information， and ideas on teaching the subject of the volume to
undergraduates.
The series is intended to serve nonspeeialists as well as specialists， inex-
perienced as well as experienced teachers， graduate students who wish to
learn effective ways of teaching as well as senior professors who wish to com-
pare their own approaches with the approaches of colleagues in other schools.
Of course， no volume in the series can ever substitute for erudition， intelli-
gence， creativity， and sensitivity in teaching. We hope merely that each book
will point readers in useful directions; at most each will offer only a first step
in the long journey to successful teaching.
Joseph Gibald
Series Editor
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