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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Well, wonderful writer he may well be, but Mr. Toibin seems a bit draconian for the classroom! And Nabokov’s famous directives on how his novels <i>had to</i> be read also are poor models for pedagogy (except in the 19<sup>th</sup> century perhaps…). Of course, in my own classes I ban the use of ‘relatable’ …. ;)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Laurie Reiche<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 12, 2013 1:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> Roy<br><b>Cc:</b> VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] Mrs Dalloway and Literary Theory<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>o" but literary theory is soooo delicious!<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:39 PM, Roy <<a href="mailto:roy@mantex.co.uk">roy@mantex.co.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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’.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Think on !</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dr Roy Johnson</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.mantex.co.uk"><span style='color:purple'>www.mantex.co.uk</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dr Roy Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>MANTEX Information Design<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.mantex.co.uk"><span style='color:purple'>http://www.mantex.co.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Phone: 0161 432 5811<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Email:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:roy@mantex.co.uk"><span style='color:purple'>roy@mantex.co.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Blog:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://mantex.blogspot.com"><span style='color:purple'>http://mantex.blogspot.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt'>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu"><span style='color:purple'>Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</span></a><br><a href="https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf"><span style='color:purple'>https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>