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

[Brenda R. Silver]

I wonder if Cunningham got the Winnicott comparison from Alison Bechdel's *Are You My Mother?*  Just like him not to say if he did.
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From: Jean Mallinson [annaj at telus.net]
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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Michael Cunningham attempts to explain Woolf's importance: "Mom is adoring and nurturing and ever-so-slightly out of touch."

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
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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