[Vwoolf] Michael Cunningham attempts to explain Woolf's importance: "Mom is adoring and nurturing and ever-so-slightly out of touch."

Christine Froula cfroula at northwestern.edu
Thu Jul 18 07:52:25 EDT 2013


That's indeed "more than enough out of [Cunningham]." Not worthy of the 
Guardian either, I'd have thought.

On 7/18/2013 5:46 AM, Gregory Jordan Dekter wrote:
> From The Guardian Books Blog, July 16: 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/jul/16/michael-cunningham-folio-joyce-woolf
>
> 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?
>
> 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?
>
>
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