[Vwoolf] Query: on how to teach Orlando: what approaches work

[Ellen Moody]

A hearty grateful thanks to Eileen Barrett, Anne Fernald, Roy Johnson, Lois
Gilmore and Helen Southworth.  I now have the courage to do it as I now
have a number of ways that seem to be very workable. It's not that I've not
taught in colleges for decades -- I first taught in 1972, and was for say 8
years in the CUNY NYC system, and I taught in Virginia at George Mason for
17 years and before that (or during that time for a few years) at American
University, but I've not tried with an older group of people this
non-realistic book. Many older readers expect realism in their novels, and
will be all at sea with long passages that don't conform either to
traditional biography/ history r a traditional novel. I wanted ways to get
round this. I did think of pictures: I have in my house Vita
Sackville-West's book on Knoles with many black-and-white photos, and her
child's book A Note of Explanation, which is a beautiful picture book that
is said to be part of the inspiration for Orlando.

I wonder if Lois could tell me which miscellany her article is in. I have a
bunch going way back (paper copies) and could find it that way.

I've saved all the methods suggested.

I've been a member of the Society for several years now and only three days
ago thought of finding this listserv, and joining it. Such a place is a
wonderful resource for information.

So another query: come to think of it, the one Woolf novel I've not been
able to find a recorded audiobook available to an individual consumer is
Between the Acts. There is one available to libraries. On Orlando, alas,
there is only an abridged audiobook no unabridged one, and I regarde
unabridged ones as worse than wastes of time. There are otherwise some
beautifully read recordings of the books unabridged, most still available
as CDs or MP3s. I love to listen to the books too.

Ellen Moody -
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