In my Theories of the Reader senior seminar, I will have my students study a literary work that became a public event. In today’s post I list a number of possibilities.
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Literature as a Public Event
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Bloodless Criticism Undermines Lit
Literature can function as an evasion as well as a guide. But only if we talk about it in evasive ways.
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An English Teacher as Tess
Lily King’s novel “English Teacher” is a profound meditation on how a trauma victim may view “Tess of the d’Urbervilles.”
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