Meditations on Margaret Edson’s “W;t”–with further reflections on whether Donne’s poetry can help us handle death.
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Don’t Underestimate Your Students
Rule #1 for literature teachers should be to listen carefully to your students’ responses. There may be hidden wisdom in even the most unpromising ones.
The Limitations of Cerebral Teaching
Teaching literature must be more than just a cerebral affair.
Donne as an Aid to Teenage Angst
Well, the semester is underway. Yesterday I began teaching one of my favorite classes, the early British Literature survey (Literature in History I). Along with Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Wife of Bath, Doctor Faustus, Twelfth Night, King Lear, and Paradise Lost, I will be teaching the poetry of John Donne. I […]
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Don’t Underestimate Students
I begin my two literature classes today and, as always, am filled with trepidation. Will I be the teacher my students need me to be? Margaret Edson’s play W;t reminds me that, if I stay true to the literature, all will be well. W;t, functions in part as a criticism of those college literature professors […]
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