[Vwoolf] Mrs Dalloway and Literary Theory

Laurie Reiche p.reiche at comcast.net
Fri Jul 12 13:56:05 EDT 2013


o" but literary theory is soooo delicious!
On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:39 PM, Roy <roy at mantex.co.uk> wrote:

> 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’.
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> 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.
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> Think on !
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