I just checked a site called sparknotes, a cliffnotes for the web. It's a
pay site, but it did allow me to look at its synopsis and commentary on the
first chapter of Death in Venice. No mention of Dionysius, no mention of
Nietsche. And of course not nearly as much fun to read as Mann. Basically
useless, un less of course the level of teaching has sunk to a point where
the notes could actually get a student by.
Mark
At 08:26 AM 12/4/2003 -0800, Mark Weiss wrote:
>Oh you optimist. I was teaching Death in Venus in an upper-level college
>world lit course. One student in a paper described the scene in which
>Aschenbach gets his hair dyed. "Isn't it wonderful," she wrote, "what a
>makeover can do for you. Because of the barber and Tadzio Aschenbach gets
>to live out the rest of his days in happiness in Venice." I'd like to think
>she got that from the cliffnotes.
>
>Mark
>
>
>At 04:18 PM 12/4/2003 +0000, Liz Kirby wrote:
>>I kind of doubt that they are - they have more the quality of urban myths
>>and I have seen an almost identical list proposed as howlers made by
>>English GCSE students......
>>
>>Liz
>>
>> > What's just a bit shivery is that these undoubtedly are real. I never
>> > got things quite this bad when I was adjuncting in a few community
>> > colleges, but there WERE a few goodies nonetheless.
>>
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