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<p>Hi Ann!<br>
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<p>It might come from "compulsory heterosexuality" (Adrienne Rich's essay "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence") but I think "compulsory" has been paired over time with new terms. Right now, turning 63, I'm preoccupied with compulsory youthfulness.</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> March 13, 2018 2:15 PM<br>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">To follow up on your comments/questions, Laurie: yes. Two weeks ago in my grad course, Modernism and the Fashioned Self, I was setting up a move from Woolf (<em>Mrs Dalloway</em>) to Hemingway, and one of the
first queries that was posed had to do with Hemingway's biography and his mental health. The listserv discussions of Woolf, bipolar disorders, and the classroom were immensely valuable in my follow-up the next day; as a direct result, a student is now working
on compulsory able-bodiedness in <em>The Sun Also Rises</em> and Timothy Findley's
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">While I'm here: they're wondering, Madelyn, if you (and Brenda?) coined the phrase "compulsory able-mindedness," or whether it has another provenance. It's such an appropriate and productive term: any information
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">With best wishes,<br>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Ann<br>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Message: 1<br>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:04:02 -0700<br>
From: Laurie Reiche <lauriereiche@gmail.com><br>
To: "Brenda S. Helt" <helt0010@umn.edu><br>
Cc: Woolf list <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu><br>
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Woolf bipolar<br>
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Yes; yes. I think this is so spot-on. We/I have veered off track from your original question! It is such a hot/passionate trigger-issue! I don?t have time for much of a lengthy response except to say you might share with your students this exchange that you?re
having with Woolf scholars (don?t share the emails, but share it as a verbal story)- share with them how hard, it is, indeed, even for scholars and professors to separate things we know about Woolf and can?t not know, can?t unknow; and ask them if they have
any suggestions?.. But also, I?m interested to know if this knowing a person?s psychological history etc., is a gender thing. For instance, does knowing Hemmingway shot himself in the head impact our reading of his work or have people just put it aside, so
to speak. Why does it come up for Plath and not Berryman or Nerval? I?ve noticed this in classes, people have forgotten Hemmingway killed himself, at least when reading his work it hardly seems to become an issue,
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and it kind of makes me fume a little! Again, this is a hot distracting topic!!!!<br>
cheerio!<br>
Laurie<br>
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Laurie Reiche<br>
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