Today's session explored issues relating to literary value. Students were asked to consider the concept of the canon and discuss the notion of value. The question at the heart of the discussion was:
HOW DO WE CALCULATE LITERARY VALUE?
Students were then asked to consider the merits of a prose extract from modern author, and son of Hull, Russ Litten, and T.S.Eliot's The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock.
Students were asked to consider which text offers the most literary value?
HOMEWORK: DIGEST LITERATURE. DIGEST THESE RESOURCES.
Read Eliot's PRUFROCK and read Ted Hughes' LOVESONG. Not only do I want students to consider why these two poems could be considered valuable but I also want students to consider how metaphor is being used to shape meaning.
YOU TUBE PROVIDES THESE KIND OF RESOURCES! SOAK THEM UP! HERE, TWO ACADEMICS DISCUSS READINGS OF ELIOT'S PRUFROCK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DeqZ9ryTc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsDOASE42HM
Here is a link to a bloke talking about the poem. This is the kind of resource that YOU TUBE can offer the student. This man offers his own reading of this famous poem...and links the poem to his life. Is this a useful resource?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA4NpKVmV5I
One of the central questions that we will consider on Friday is:
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF METAPHOR?
I expect ALL students to be familiar with the texts in FEED YOUR BRAIN and I expect class discussion linked to ELIOT/HUGHES to be illustrated with references to the texts in the Anthology. The aim of the Anthology is to allow students to illustrate their critical argument with a wide range of textual reference. READ THE ANTHOLOGY.......READ...READ....READ....READ.
Students should also digest the resources below:
Katie Tempest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRYLzWovtk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLWlB3ib7ZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv5fggapRwQ
Hollie McNish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiS8q_fifa0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJX5XHnONTI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5-BNFKkz9M
John Cooper Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4qN9pduox0
TS Eliot reads..Prufrock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAO3QTU4PzY
Florence Welch reads Hughes' LOVESONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woyB_gJQLpg
Lemn Sissay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXp8yzY99uw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlfdYWx5pDQ
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