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From: scgbooks at aol.com <scgbooks>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:06:27 -0400
And while we're at it, Grimms Fairy Tales and Greek Mythology. Trace the line from the beginning to modern times. Good vs. evil, not a new theme. Shape shifters, as old as time. I wish I'd had the chance to take such a course when I was in high school.
Stephanie Greene
-----Original Message----- From: James Elliott <libraryjim at embarqmail.com> To: Lbhcove at aol.com Cc: JaneYolen at aol.com; ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:42 pm Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] VAMPIRE STUDIES
add Bram Stoker, Edgar Alan Poe, Washington Irving, and Mary Shelly to that list.
Let the teens see the origins of the modern vampire and monster mythos.
Jim Elliott
----- Original Message ----- From: Lbhcove at aol.com Subject: [CCBC-Net] VAMPIRE STUDIES
Jane:
What bothers me in talking to so many teenagers is that they know little of the classics. Playwrights like Williams, O'Neill, Inge, Miller are largely ignored. How many know Sandburg, Hughes, Brooks, Frost, Millay -- or Dickenson.
Rather than spending so much time giving them this pop-genre I feel we should be uplifting them, raising them to great words, great poetry. They get enough of this on their own without our TEACHING it.
Lee
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:06:27 -0400
And while we're at it, Grimms Fairy Tales and Greek Mythology. Trace the line from the beginning to modern times. Good vs. evil, not a new theme. Shape shifters, as old as time. I wish I'd had the chance to take such a course when I was in high school.
Stephanie Greene
-----Original Message----- From: James Elliott <libraryjim at embarqmail.com> To: Lbhcove at aol.com Cc: JaneYolen at aol.com; ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: Thu, Jul 9, 2009 8:42 pm Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] VAMPIRE STUDIES
add Bram Stoker, Edgar Alan Poe, Washington Irving, and Mary Shelly to that list.
Let the teens see the origins of the modern vampire and monster mythos.
Jim Elliott
----- Original Message ----- From: Lbhcove at aol.com Subject: [CCBC-Net] VAMPIRE STUDIES
Jane:
What bothers me in talking to so many teenagers is that they know little of the classics. Playwrights like Williams, O'Neill, Inge, Miller are largely ignored. How many know Sandburg, Hughes, Brooks, Frost, Millay -- or Dickenson.
Rather than spending so much time giving them this pop-genre I feel we should be uplifting them, raising them to great words, great poetry. They get enough of this on their own without our TEACHING it.
Lee
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