Just an addendum: Jhumpa Lahiri, who just won the Pulitzer for fiction,
did her senior thesis at Barnard on Spenser. So now I can tell my
students, "You see?" Even worldly success attends those who read The
Faerie Queene. Anne P.
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Margaret Christian wrote:
> Teresa, I have found the MLA's Approaches to Teaching volume
> helpful. There is even an article called "'The hard begin'" (I'm sorry;
> the author slips my mind) which lays out a first class period on The Faerie
> Queene.
>
> Margaret
>
> At 08:37 AM 04/15/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >As a follow-up to the wonderful testimonies about students' warm responses
> >to Spenser (which I've also experienced), I would love to hear how people
> >actually get undergrads _into_ Spenser courses in the first place. This
> >seems increasingly difficult to do, though I think it's long been a problem
> >because majors in surveys of the Brit Lit I type often have bad experiences
> >with him, or the ways he's taught--or not taught at all. Thanks!
> >Theresa M. Krier
> >Dept. of English
> >Bryan 219
> >University of Virginia
> >Charlottesville, VA 22904
> >
> >804/245-5036
>
> Margaret R. Christian, Ph.D. [log in to unmask]
> Associate Professor of English Office: (610) 285-5106
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