Literary theorist Stanley Fish has a fun read, ”Is There a Text in this Class?” Do read it, but for the sake of the post, here is my own summary: Language is situational. You cannot separate a statement’s meaning from its situation. Thus, meta-truths=asituational truths=useless to people (for they are constantly situation-bound). People accuse him of [...]
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November 14, 2009
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The Moral Tutelage of Literature
By Robert Minto in Books, Literary Theory, Pedagogy, VirtueTo the Lighthouse is a profoundly convicting book. As we follow Virginia Woolf on her whirlwind tour through the consciousnesses of her characters, I imagine that all of us will get stuck identifying with a particular character. She lures us into identification by attractively presenting the internal monologue of that character—in my case, the single-minded [...]
Tags: graduate school, internal monologue, lighthouse, moral education, Mr. Ramsay, ramsay, tutelage, virginia woolf, voracious readers
