Hal, dig. In fact, we'll go pretty deeply into Eliot & Bishop, at least
early Pound, a couple of others. I'll partly let the class take the lead on
who we read more thoroughly.
jd
On Jan 18, 2008 2:30 PM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Being comprehensive may preclude digging in to
> everyone deeply, but shouldn't have to preclude
> digging into someone deeply.
>
> Dig?
>
> Hal
>
> "A discouraging number of reputable poets
> are sane beyond recall."
> --E. B. White
>
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>
> On Jan 18, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
>
> > Doug, it is always, as you say, a choice between trying to be
> > comprehensive
> > & giving students a chance to dig in deeply. In my case the decision
> > was
> > made based largely on the sort of students I have at Clarkson. Even
> > though
> > this is an upper-division (jr / sr) course, it has both majors and
> > non-major
> > in it. What 20th century lit they've read has been mostly prose. So my
> > choice was to try to sketch in the landscape for them, establish the
> > landmarks, so that they would be prepared, if they wish, to explore
> > further
> > & spend more time in one place. It is, consequently, a fairly
> > standard, even
> > conservative, syllabus.
> >
> > jd
> >
> > On Jan 18, 2008 11:40 AM, 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/><
> 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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Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
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