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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