Assignment 1 – Catalogues and Analogues
183′ Exercises: Ground rules: This week we’re going to generate paragraphs from lists or catalogues. The elements of a list will become parts of sentences, and the sentences parts of paragraphs. The structure, order and even the dramaturgy of the...Daily Themes: An Approach to the Teaching of Writing by John Hollander
In 1979, the poet, scholar, and critic John Hollander took over the long-standing Daily Themes course at Yale, which before him had been taught, among others, by the celebrated novelist and essayist John Hersey. Daily Themes is a course in writing that dates...Daily Themes
In 1979, the celebrated poet, scholar and critic, John Hollander took over the long-standing Daily Themes course at Yale and, drawing on his vast knowledge of literature, turned it into an outstanding example of a module in writing which is founded, in his words, on ‘a set of lessons about how to engage with past literature, past models of writerly practice, about how they teach us to write.’ We offer this course as a brilliant example for teachers wishing to bring together ‘criticism’ and ‘creative writing’, reading and writing – and especially instructive for the way it reflects Hollander’s unusually well-informed understanding of Renaissance teaching practices.
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