'I'll drown by book': mixing medieval texts and modern technology.
Scholars have often discussed the benefits of teaching medieval and Renaissance texts to first-year college students, but unless students already have a taste for such texts, they often find medieval and Renaissance works difficult, intimidating, or plain uninteresting. Current reading theory attrib...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 179 - 199 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
1999
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