[Vwoolf] Mrs Dalloway and Literary Theory
Roy
roy at mantex.co.uk
Fri Jul 12 13:39:15 EDT 2013
Interviewed on BBC Radio 3 as special guest recently, the Irish novelist
Colm Toibin said that as a golden rule in his work teaching literature as
Professor of Humanities at Columbia University, he FORBIDS any mention of
literary theory, and even bans the use of terms such as 'discourse' and
'textuality'.
Instead, participants in his seminars and tutorials are forced to discuss
only the specific details, the characters, events, and prose style of the
text under consideration. That, he argued (echoing Vladimir Nabokov's
similar approach) is the only serious way to appreciate and understand a
work of literature.
Think on !
Dr Roy Johnson
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Dr Roy Johnson
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