...Michael Brisbois This essay provides an approach to teaching T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land . The approach is designed to disassociate the student from the annotation usually provided by either Eliot or an editor. The assignment is presented in multiple frameworks and hopes to make students deal...

... similar scandals—which involved former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, then-current New York governor David Paterson, and former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey—differed markedly depending on the Post ’s then-relationship to each political figure. In the exercise, students chose several articles...

... of the King: The Metaphor of the Game of Chess in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land .” Yeats Eliot Review 22.2 : 2 – 6 . Graff Gerald . 1993 . Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education . New York : Norton . Irwin William . 2004 . “ Against...

...Jennifer L. Holberg; Marcy Taylor Duke University Press 2006 Eliot, George. 1872 . Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life . New York: Norton 2000. Long, Mark. 2005 . “Where Do You Teach?” Pedagogy 5 : 371 -77. Nathan, Rebekah. 2005 . My Freshman Year: What a Professor...

... that by actively engaging students and knowing how to fairly balance critique, the hospitable classroom is ultimately a productive one. From the Classroom Voices Out of a Barren Land An Approach to Teaching T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Michael Brisbois Instructors...

... of a Barren Land An Approach to Teaching T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Michael Brisbois Instructors seeking to teach T. S. Eliot’s masterwork The Waste Land face a number of problems. While the poem itself is arguably the most influ- ential poetic work of the last century, its origins lie...

... . 2004 . “ Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key .” College Composition and Communication 56.2 : 297 – 328 . From the Classroom Voices Out of a Barren Land An Approach to Teaching T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Michael Brisbois...

... Alighieri, La Vita Nuova . Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin . Ricks Christopher McCue Jim , eds. 2015 . The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Collected and Uncollected Poems . Vol. 1 . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . Cluster on Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy Vertically “In My...

...Gail McDonald Hypertext and the Teaching of Modernist Difficulty Gail McDonald T. S. Eliot (1963: 112), who famously declared in 1921 that poets in our civi- lization, as it exists at present, must be difficult, made difficulty a badge of modernist honor. The attitudes of academic criticism...

... in Art Education . Waltham, MA : Blaisdell . Eliot T. S. 1919 . “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” In The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism , 42 – 53 . New York : Knopf . English Helen W. 1970 . “Rock Poetry, Relevance, and Revelation.” English Journal 59...

... of these being novelists: (Wilkie Collins, Dickens, Charles Reade, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, Robert Smith Surtees, and Edward Bulwer-­ Lytton). So out of 181 dissertations, at least 88 were on novels and novelists. The other ninety odd covered a range of topics; some discussed both...

.... For in this view the primary connections among works are those defined by the medium of language: words, images, sounds. T. S. Eliot s poetry, notably Prufrock and The Waste Land, provides per- haps the paradigmatic New Critical examples for this understanding of liter- ary works. His strategy of allusion...

... hope that honesty will serve a purpose. I very much doubt that Eliot had the professionalization of graduate students in the humanities in mind when he wrote in “The Hollow Men” (1925) of “the Shadow” that falls between “idea” and “reality” and “motion” and “act,” but I am going...

..., as repre- sented in the poetry of Ezra Pound (1913), William Carlos Williams (1923), T. S. Eliot (1917), and Robert Frost (1914), and in the fiction of Ernest Hemingway (1936), followed by four weeks on postmodern advocacy for wakefulness in the nonfiction of Gloria Anzaldúa (1987), in poems...

...James Phelan Duke University Press 2007 Wayne C. Booth: The Effect of His Being James Phelan When I think about Wayne Booth’s effect on my life and career, I think first of the narrator’s comments about Dorothea Brooke at the end of George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1956: 613...

... – 61 . Eliot T. S. 1963 . “Gerontion.” Collected Poems 1909–1962 . London : Faber . Hemingway Ernest . 1967 . “Hills like White Elephants.” In The Experience of Literature: A Reader with Commentaries , ed. Trilling Lionel , 302 – 5 . New York : Holt, Rinehart...

... University. Duncan, David James. 2002 . The River Why . San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. Eliot, George. 2000 . Middlemarch . New York: Modern Library. Joyce, James. 1986 . Ulysses . New York: Vintage Books. Percy, Walker. 1991a . “Accepting the National Book Award for The Moviegoerr...

... translation would best suit the needs of the particular class where the poem will be taught. Peter S. Hawkins in “ ‘In My End Is My Beginning’: Teaching Dante Retrospectively” evokes T. S. Eliot’s line from “East Coker” in Four Quartets to explore the effect of Dante’s echoes, repetitions...

... of Pennsylvania and Michigan State University and is currently a recipient of an Israel Science Foundation grant entitled Postsecular George Eliot. Rosalind Buckton-Tucker studied at King's College, London, and the University of Leicester, UK, and holds a PhD in American literature. Her main research...

..., Eliot, and Auden. Laura A. Ewing is a doctoral candidate in rhetoric and composition theory at the University of South Florida. She specializes in intercultural techni- cal communication, global writing studies, and the role of digital media in writing. For her dissertation research, she...