Monday, February 7, 2011

Berlinski is a rare breed

Class agenda April 28, 2010
by K. Titchenell - Tuesday, 27 April 2010, 08:33 AM
Dear Scholars,

We decided last week that no assignment was necessary as you all had strong ideas about what you wanted to write. It seems that everyone was inspired to write poetry. Let's discuss poetry a bit further, with emphasis upon adjusting the rhythm and meter.

Let's study these and perhaps their authors would like to recite:
Derek's APWBAP
Marc's Cemetery and Butterfly Butterfly

Auditory learning:
Has everyone listened to The Death of Criticism?

I also found Eagleton's lecture on Faith and Reason at Yale University quite fascinating and added it to my page of exemplary lectures.

I know that these talks are quite long, but they are definitely worth listening to if you have time.

Here is a very short talk I recently found. Berlinski is a rare breed -- he is an American who handles language beautifully:

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