Doug has regularly taught Cohen, if memory serves. I use a couple of Cohen
tracks late in the semester in my Literature of American Popular Music
class. Indispensable.
jd
On Jan 18, 2008 6:14 PM, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Leonard Cohen should be in a CanLit course
>
> KS
>
> On 18/01/2008, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Intriguing posts, Joe. I was interested in your course outline, as
> > someone who over the years came to want fewer poets & more poems by
> > those I chose to present (then sent students off to read others for
> > their papers). I also had the class presentations on a particularly
> > famous volume by one of the poets being taken up in the class. That
> > often proved interesting (always, as usual, depending on how 'into it'
> > the presenters got).
> >
> > It's a hard choice, either way can work. In my CanLit classes near the
> > end, I only included a couple of books of poetry, along with the
> > novels, & the collection of Alice Munro's short stories.
> >
> > Let us know how that poetry ploy works with the 15 year olds, eh.
> >
> > Doug
> > On 18-Jan-08, at 9:24 AM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
> >
> > > - Winter birds
> > >
> > >
> > > - Teaching poetry to fifteen year olds
> > >
> > >
> > > - Tillie Olsen film (via A Practical Policy)
> > >
> > >
> > > - Blogging the Bach suites for unaccompanied cello & trying to catch
> > > up with Jonathan Mayhew
> > >
> > >
> > > - Etc.
> > >
> > >
> > > http://sharpsand.net
> > >
> > > --
> > > Joseph Duemer
> > > Professor of Humanities
> > > Clarkson University
> > > [sharpsand.net]
> > >
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/>
> >
> > Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> >
> > Nothing I'd read
> > prepared me for a body this unfair.
> >
> > John Newlove
> >
>
--
Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
[sharpsand.net]
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