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Survey for Approaches to Teaching Ezra Pound's Poetry and Prose

Edited by Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos

This survey is designed to gather information about instructors' methods and materials for teaching the poetry and prose of Ezra Pound, for the purpose of developing a new volume on the author in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Respondents are encouraged to submit a proposal for a contribution to the volume (see item 16 below) as well as to answer the questions related to their teaching. Proposals and survey responses are due by 1 April 2008, after which date the survey will no longer be available online. All respondents will be acknowledged in the published volume.

Please answer the questions on the form below and click Submit when you are finished. Your responses will go directly to the volume's editor. The editor welcomes supplemental materials such as course descriptions, syllabi, assignments, and bibliographies. You may upload them (see the end of the form); send them by surface mail to Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, A/Dean, School of Graduate Studies, Sir Howard Douglas Hall, Room 317, 3 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB, Canada, E3B 5A3; or e-mail them to demetres@unb.ca. You may also forward queries or comments to the editor at those addresses. Thank you for helping in the development of this important project.

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1. Please list the course(s) in which you teach Ezra Pound's poetry and prose. For each of these courses, please provide the course title, level (e.g., introductory undergraduate, upper-level undergraduate or honors, graduate), and subject matter and format (e.g., modernist survey, twentieth-century American literature, twentieth-century American poetry, special topic, seminar, directed reading), as well as the amount of time each course devotes to Pound.

2. List the works by Pound you assign and teach in the courses listed above and the editions used.

3. List the secondary materials (e.g., biographies or biographical essays, critical essays, journal articles, specific journals) you consult in your preparation for teaching any of the courses listed above.

4. List any secondary materials either assigned to students or assigned and used in the classroom--including prose essays by Pound himself--that you may use in teaching Pound's poetry.

5. What Internet, electronic, or audiovisual resources, if any, do you find helpful in your own preparation, in the classroom, or for use by students outside the classroom? How do you use these resources?

6. If you use online discussion groups, e-mail discussion lists, communal blogs, or other interactive electronic forums in your teaching of Pound's work, please discuss how you do so.

7. What are the principal difficulties you encounter in teaching work by Pound, and what approaches do you use for overcoming them?

8. Which of Pound's texts (e.g., specific poems or brief essays), and what aspects of these texts, do students find most engaging?

9. Which of Pound's texts, and what aspects of these texts, do students find most difficult or least interesting?

10. What specific themes do you emphasize in your teaching of Pound's work?

11. How, if at all, do you deal with Pound's radical racial, political, and economic views?

12. Please identify any works by other authors you teach in relation to Pound and explain briefly the connections you emphasize.

13. If in your teaching of Pound's work you stress a particular theoretical approach, please describe the approach, which texts or essays you present to the students, and--generally--how you apply such perspectives in the classroom.

14. What assignments related to Pound (papers, presentations, group presentations, in-class exercises, tests, projects, etc.) do you assign to students in your classroom, and which have you found most successful?

15. What specific concerns would you like to see addressed in a volume on the teaching of Pound's works?

16. If you would like to propose an essay for this volume, please submit an abstract in which you describe your approach or topic and explain its potential benefit for students and instructors alike. Please submit a brief curriculum vitae; you may use the Browse button(s) below for this purpose, as well as to forward any supplemental materials, such as syllabi.

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