Leonard Cohen should be in a CanLit course
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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
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> 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
>
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