Magazine article
The Simplest Course I Ever Taught
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol.64(20)
21 Jan 2018
Abstract
Put the frog in boiling water and he’ll jump out at once; gradually turn up the heat and he’ll stay put and get cooked. For an hour each week I read Pride and Prejudice to the class, stopping occasionally at the end of a chapter to explain a reference or supply a context: the meaning of "primogeniture" and "entail"; the lower status attached to being "in trade"; the difference between Bingley and Darcy’s class position. [...]they could acknowledge Austen’s genius but also critique the limitations built into her historical moment.
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Details
- Title
- The Simplest Course I Ever Taught
- Creators
- Paula Marantz Cohen
- Publication Details
- The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol.64(20)
- Publisher
- Chronicle of Higher Education; Washington
- Resource Type
- Magazine article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pennoni Honors College
- Identifiers
- 991020836610104721