Comments on: On the Pleasure of Teaching “On the Pleasure of Hating” http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2012/02/22/on-the-pleasure-of-teaching-on-the-pleasure-of-hating/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:42:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 By: Richard Gilbert, Otterbein University http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2012/02/22/on-the-pleasure-of-teaching-on-the-pleasure-of-hating/#comment-282 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:11:20 +0000 http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/litbits/?p=5402#comment-282 Thanks for a stimulating post. As Sartre said, “Hell is other people.” In hating we give into that sentiment, and place ourselves in closer proximity to hell–but, as you say, it’s part of human nature. The Kardashians are a great example indeed.

I’d love ideas on how to teach this essay and also how to integrate it into a class that also deals with narrative essays. It has been my experience that students have no problem with summary and with giving their opinions but need to learn to tell a basic story, that’s hard enough! So my inclination would be to teach them about scenes and dramatic structure, and after I have gotten them to see the power of dramatized experience lead them up to reflective essays like Susan Griffin’s “Our Secret” and then to classical meditative ones like Hazlitt’s.

But I still don’t know how to approach him. Basically I think the students get the expression of ego, however, and would just go for it.

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