Tag: pedagogy

  • National Embarrassment/Bore Sparks Some Great Literary Criticism

    National Embarrassment/Bore Sparks Some Great Literary Criticism

    Yesterday we learned from David Gilmour that being in conversation with “a young woman” means one doesn’t need to take one’s words seriously—but then Gilmour also taught us that literary “seriousness” is just for straight white dudes. Education’s great, eh? I can hear Jane Austen guffawing into a carefully hemmed sleeve in the sky. A…