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2005

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Higher Education Administration

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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The Age Of Imitation, Joan Digby Apr 2005

The Age Of Imitation, Joan Digby

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In recent years I’ve been somewhat perplexed to discover that my honors freshman literature classes are far more receptive to Pope’s “Essay on Man” than Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.” Through most of my teaching career, the reverse was the norm, but a number of changes in popular taste have led students away from Romantic originality and led me to these reflections on contemporary culture which may, I hope, have some wider implications with respect to current issues in teaching and learning.


The Ages Of Imitation, Authenticity And Originality, Cheryl Achterberg Apr 2005

The Ages Of Imitation, Authenticity And Originality, Cheryl Achterberg

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Joan Digby has offered us a wonderful opportunity to think about our students and ourselves in constructing an education for them. Her essay took me back to my own freshman year when I read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “The Birthmark.” I think it might have been the first formal paper that I wrote in college, and it left an indelible imprint on my mind: The only truth is paradox. It seems to fit this case. Our students are and are not different than those in the past, and we, their instructors, are neither more nor less than our predecessors. If the …


Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 6, No. 1 -- Complete Issue Apr 2005

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 6, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

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CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Faith Gabelnick David Mowry
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON HONORS STUDENTS
The Age of Imitation -- Joan Digby
The Age of False Positives -- Bernice Braid
Originality is a Risk -- Annmarie Guzy
Intimations of Imitation: Honors Students and Their Alps -- Jeffrey A. Portnoy
The Art of the Mash-Up: Students in the Age of Digital Reproduction -- Amy Bass
Responsibility and Imitation -- Michael K. Cundall, Jr.
The Ages of Imitation, Authenticity, and Originality -- Cheryl Achterberg
Imitation, Economic Insecurity, and Risk Aversion -- Jay Mandt
The Hopes and …