I did the course package thing too, in a course long ago on exploration
writing in early Canada. Much, much work ahead of time, but a warm
reception from the students ("why have we never seen this stuff
before?"), eventually a big anthology from Oxford Canada with
ground-breaking Introduction, reprinted twice, and then when the
copyright came back to me reprinted with a a refreshed Introduction and
some new notes by Dundurn Press here in Toronto. Almost never out of
print since 1993, so be careful what you wish for! Germaine (whose head
is still spinning).
On 2018-04-06 9:29 AM, Judith Owens wrote:
> Professors in my department often cobble together course packages when
> they teach courses for which there are no suitable or readily
> available texts. We photocopy relevant pages from different books,
> making sure not to exceed the number of pages that copyright laws
> permit, and then give the material to our university bookstore to
> print and bind however many copies we need for the course.
>
> Students then buy the “text” from the bookstore. Its price depends on
> the number of total pages so it’s usually a fairly inexpensive option.
>
> (It can entail a lot of front-end work, weeks or even months before
> the course starts—sifting through books to find what you need and then
> standing at the photocopy machine...)
>
> Judith Owens
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 6, 2018, at 8:06 AM, David Miller <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>> In designing a graduate course for the fall on sixteenth-century love
>> lyrics in English, I finally just gave up on the anthologies, all
>> over-priced and full of snippets (plus hundreds of pages of material
>> not to my purpose).
>>
>> My course description tells students they'll be asked to read large
>> amounts of the poetry--as much as they can--online, through various
>> resources like Luminarium and Renascence.
>>
>> This is what some graduate students have been doing anyway for a
>> while, understandably given how impoverished they often are.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Hannibal Hamlin
>> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>
>> In teaching a course on literature and religion in the
>> seventeenth century, I've been struck by how many major authors
>> are no longer in print, mainly, I think, because of the
>> disappearance of good Penguin editions. Thomas Browne is gone, as
>> are Henry Vaughan and Thomas Traherne. And there are no viable
>> alternatives. Has anyone else noticed this, and are there other
>> authors who have dropped out of circulation?
>>
>> I guess I have a couple of ideas about this development. The
>> first is that the interest in poetry in general has waned over
>> the last several decades, perhaps due in part to the focus of
>> much popular theory on the novel. (I note with surprise how
>> little the critical bibliography on seventeenth-century poets,
>> except Milton, has developed since the 80s.) The other thought is
>> that the dwindling job market has resulted in an unhealthy focus
>> on Shakespeare and drama, since as the Humanities sink below the
>> waves, Shakespeare is the last Renaissance writer to go under.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Hannibal
>>
>>
>>
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