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Date: 26 May 98 13:00:45 From:"Deborah J. Shepherd" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Eco, Name of the Rose Reply-to: [log in to unmask] X-Orcl-Application: Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> X-Orcl-Application: Organization: University of Minnesota X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) X-Orcl-Application: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Orcl-Application: References: <[log in to unmask]> X-Orcl-Application: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Orcl-Application: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-List: [log in to unmask] X-Unsub: To leave, send text 'leave medieval-religion' to [log in to unmask] X-List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> X-Orcl-Application: Sender: [log in to unmask] X-Orcl-Application: Errors-To: [log in to unmask] X-Orcl-Application: Precedence: list Dennis D. Martin wrote: > > I must object to proposing the movie version of Eco's _Name of the Rose_ > as useful for the eleventh-grader's project. The movie only perpetuates > the worst caricatures everyone else on the list has been trying to > overcome. Whether the novel itself is useful, I question--it certainly is > less useful than many of the secondary sources already suggested, but the > movie is certainly a caricature of the novel. I knew this was coming. However, I have taught students ranging from average high school to "quality" college-level, and we must not confuse their levels of learning. The way I see that movie as striking an 11th-grader is more advantageous than disadvantageous for understanding certain aspects of the Middle Ages. A scholarly book or article that bores them and goes unread is useless. You have to get them interested before they will read anything useful. I would not waste a college student's class time showing this movie though I might comment on it briefly in class. D. Shepherd