Vincent Buckley’s Teaching Archive
There is much evidence here of a responsive and two-way teaching, attuned with student concerns and eager to answer their literary interests. When you hear me talking this way, take a pinch of salt, count up to ten, take away the number you first thought of, and conclude warily that what I am saying...
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| Published in: | Australian humanities review 2021-05 (68), p.1-1 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | There is much evidence here of a responsive and two-way teaching, attuned with student concerns and eager to answer their literary interests. When you hear me talking this way, take a pinch of salt, count up to ten, take away the number you first thought of, and conclude warily that what I am saying is at best a half truth. [circled in margin-'Read Herald'] (Folder 2) One aspect of Buckley as teacher that comes across in some obituaries and memoirs is the sound of his voice. The archive includes a script of The Waste Land as 'Reading Guide' with single lines ascribed to each student to read aloud and marginal notes suggesting tone and delivery (Folder 3). A striking example of Buckley's interactive mode comes in a typed document headed 'Student Submission to the English Dept' with extended annotations in Buckley's hand (Folder 3). |
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| ISSN: | 1325-8338 1325-8338 |