fantastic!
KS
On 19/01/2008, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Doug has regularly taught Cohen, if memory serves. I use a couple of Cohen
> tracks late in the semester in my Literature of American Popular Music
> class. Indispensable.
>
> jd
>
> On Jan 18, 2008 6:14 PM, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Leonard Cohen should be in a CanLit course
> >
> > KS
> >
> > 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
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <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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