To teach writing about literature, think of your students as method actors.
Tag Archives: Literary Criticism
Think of Writing Essays as Method Acting
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The Reader’s Role in Literature
Reader Response Theory focuses on the reader’s involvement in literature, opening up avenues untouched by formalist criticism.
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History’s Arc Bends towards Kafka
Literature provides a special way of knowing, a way different than, say, philosophy. But it’s hard to prove this because we need to use the language of rational philosophy to make literature’s case. Once we have done so, philosophy can seem more effective than literature. After all, it tells us things straight up, without resorting […]
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No PhD Needed to Understand Lit
In today’s post I direct your attention to an article in yesterday’s New York Times entitled “In Defense of Naïve Reading.” It affirms the kind of literary interpretation this website specializes in. Author Robert Pippin, a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, is concerned that, because university literature departments have tried to emulate […]
