Writing the Journey: June 1999

"Teaching Oxbridge --There"

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Alan T. McKenzie
Department of English, Purdue University
amck@purdue.edu

An account and exploration of what happens when one "travels" to the "literature" with oneís students and, having done so, uses the literature to enrich the place travelled to, while counting on the place to help teach the literature. For the past two summers I have tried to use books written in and about Oxford and Cambridge to open studentsí eyes and understandings to the peculiar riches of those two places, and then used those places to make them better readers of better books. I will discuss some of the books I found essential to each place, some that opened up in that place, and some that seemed to me to lose something when studied in situ. Then I will venture to convey and account for my studentsí reactions to some of the books. I will also distribute a selective bibliography and some representative and instructive passages we can look at together.

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Department of English,
Purdue University.
amck@purdue.edu

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