Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

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Adventures in Teaching Literature: Dead German Skulls

Several weeks ago, I taught William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying in my Survey in American Literature course. Of all the texts I’ve taught since the summer before last (when I started teaching literature courses), this one may have been the most difficult.  For those unfamiliar with the book, it is told almost exclusively in […]