Professor Starts Hockey Literature Course

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Nov 3, 10:43 AM (ET)
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VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP) - A University of Victoria English professor has stick-handled his way through academe to create what may be Canada's - or even the world's - only college course on hockey literature.

The puck drops in January for "Hockey Literature and the Canadian Psyche," a second-year English offering by Doug Beardsley, whose previous classes have been largely in Holocaust literature and postmodern Canadian poetry.

Not every prospective student made the cut for the class, which was limited to 40 and runs three hours - appropriately divided into three periods.

Beardsley said the lack of a hockey season is "like losing a limb" because the sport is such a large part of Canadian life.

"Hockey represents the dark side of the Canadian spirit," said Beardsley, who has written two hockey books. "The way we play the game on ice is semi-legal mayhem, which allows us to balance the psyche."


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