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

[Jean Mallinson]

This is a banal piece, which only confirms my opinion of Cunningham. I 
intensely disliked /The Hours/ and was bewildered by its popularity with 
critics and readers.
Jean Mallinson/
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On 7/18/2013 4:52 AM, Christine Froula wrote:
> 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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