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<div>All I can say is that I think Michael Cunningham is a <i>very</i> lucky man who has done exceptionally well by exploiting Woolf. He isn't very talented, but he did generate an interesting idea with tripartite narrative in <i>The Hours</i>; he also happened
to win the Pulitzer Prize for the novel (thus, one assumes that other books under consideration were even more unworthy of the prize). The novel launched the film, which I think is actually quite good thanks to the direction of Stephen Daldry and the exceptional
skills of the various actors (though I have issues with the focus on the suicide scene). </div>
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<div>If one wants to wallow further in Cunningham's dreadful writing on things Woolfian, one should definitely read his abominable introduction to
<i>The Voyage Out </i><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-voyage-out/id420479599?mt=11">https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-voyage-out/id420479599?mt=11</a>.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Jean <<a href="mailto:millsj7@gmail.com">millsj7@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, July 18, 2013 3:11 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Jean Mallinson <<a href="mailto:annaj@telus.net">annaj@telus.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>VWOOLF listserv <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Vwoolf] Michael Cunningham attempts to explain Woolf's importance: "Mom is adoring and nurturing and ever-so-slightly out of touch."<br>
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<div>Agreed! And what's this Woolf "could not, would not write about sex" b.s?? Then, why am I so turned on by her books? :/</div>
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On Jul 18, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Jean Mallinson <<a href="mailto:annaj@telus.net">annaj@telus.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>This is a banal piece, which only confirms my opinion of Cunningham. I intensely disliked
<i>The Hours</i> and was bewildered by its popularity with critics and readers.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/18/2013 4:52 AM, Christine Froula wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:51E7D6F9.107@northwestern.edu" type="cite">That's indeed "more than enough out of [Cunningham]." Not worthy of the Guardian either, I'd have thought.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/18/2013 5:46 AM, Gregory Jordan Dekter wrote:<br>
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<div>From The Guardian Books Blog, July 16: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/jul/16/michael-cunningham-folio-joyce-woolf">http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/jul/16/michael-cunningham-folio-joyce-woolf</a></div>
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<div>Forgetting the cliched gender analogy, this article isn't doing Woolf or Joyce any favours. Cunningham seems overly focused on personal traits which 1) he doesn't even support and 2) he twists the meaning of to be sensational. What about facilitating a
discussion on the importance of these works, instead of baseless (and ultimately uninteresting) claims about their authors? </div>
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<div>Also: "Woolf, in To the Lighthouse, is Winnicott's good-enough mother, the one who's able to love her children while simultaneously urging them towards lives of their own, beyond her reach or influence." Does Cunningham think Woolf and Mrs Ramsay are the
same? Certainly he knows that an author, narrator, and character are all completely different things? But then, what could he mean by this?</div>
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