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Pedagogy RoundtableThe penultimate session of the 1997 Sedgwick Symposium "Teaching Sedgwick: Pedagogy Roundtable" was lead by Michelle Bauer, who presented "'It's As If She Were Speaking in Code': Student Responses to A New England Tale." Other presenters included Michael Pugh, on Shakerism (especially in Redwood and CS's short story "Magnetism Among the Shakers"); James Gallant, on Sedgwick's place in a course called "Heavens on Earth: 19th-Century New England Utopian Communities"; Karen Poremski's, Brigitte Bailey's, Dana D. Nelson's, and Deborah Gussman's various strategies for teaching Cooper's Last of the Mohegans with Hope Leslie (including informal small group work and formal group presentations); Rick Keating's contrast method for teaching Hope Leslie; Lucinda Damon-Bach's paratextual approach to A New England Tale (focussing on the novel's epigraphs); and Robert Daly's presentation of "Sedgwick's Festive Comedy." Daly has written up his most recent experience teaching Hope Leslie in a graduate course, in which he draws upon Symposium participants Nelson, Bailey, Damon-Bach, and Bauer. "Instead of beginning with all the Puritan background, I noticed that [Sedgwick] was constantly thematizing the act of interpretation, then setting little tests for her readers, then congratulating them on having figured it out so well," Daly notes. "Some of her humor is the temporal humor of a teacher trying to get her students relaxed enough to learn. This resonates quite nicely with some recent suggestions made by Marjorie Perloff and Robert Daly. |
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Call for contributions to the Sedgwick Society Newsletter If you have or would like to propose an article for the newsletter, please feel invited to contribute. The article should be 8 pages or less, that is, under 2000 words (counting notes and works cited). Please e-mail me with your ideas and queries: lucinda.damonbach@salemstate.edu Thank you in advance! |
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