"I serve myself best, as reader, when I both honor an author's offering for what it is, in its full 'otherness' from me, and take an active critical stance against what seem to me its errors or excesses. We are pursuing here an ethics of self-culture in narrative, an ethics that entails both surrender and refusal. [...] To me the most important of all critical tasks is to participate in--and thus to reinforce--a critical culture, a vigorous conversation. [...] [L]earning to talk well about such matters is both the best defense against censorship programs and the best encouragement to artists to meet us at the highest possible ethical level[.]"
I think this is a great idea for getting students involved in the class--ideally, I'd like to have students use this to post test questions, build a growing repository of knowledge about the texts we're reading, and perhaps even store essay topics. Everyone can log in to this wiki and change it, ultimately making it a rich educational site.
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Tonya Howe said
at 5:31 pm on Apr 21, 2008
I think this is a great idea for getting students involved in the class--ideally, I'd like to have students use this to post test questions, build a growing repository of knowledge about the texts we're reading, and perhaps even store essay topics. Everyone can log in to this wiki and change it, ultimately making it a rich educational site.
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