Course ideas
I was thinking about possible courses that I could design for next year. One of the ideas I came up with is to structure a course around asking about differences between poetry and prose. Is it a distinction without a difference? What formal tricks can be done with each? What happens when the distinction blurs? Does it matter? Literary texts that came to mind were Shelley's Queen Mab because it has extensive prose notes that accompany the poem, Nabokov's Pale Fire, Woolf's To the Lighthouse, and Thelwall's The Peripatetic. However, to motivate the discussion I was thinking of more pop cultural sources:
My Best Friend's Wedding
Dancer in the Dark
Buffy - Once More, With Feeling .
I don't remember the plot of the first one though; I just like the singing scene. Also, the clip of the Buffy musical is sped up with hilarious results (just to add to the entertainment value of this post). Any other suggestions, literary, pop cultural, or both?
My Best Friend's Wedding
Dancer in the Dark
Buffy - Once More, With Feeling .
I don't remember the plot of the first one though; I just like the singing scene. Also, the clip of the Buffy musical is sped up with hilarious results (just to add to the entertainment value of this post). Any other suggestions, literary, pop cultural, or both?