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Looking In on Literature |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / WHAT IS LITERATURE? TEACHING AND THE CANON |
| Author: Maria DiBattista |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 4,260 Words, 26,211 Characters |
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Anyone who teaches the modern novel today is in for it. First there is the problem (the paradox, actually) that the modern novel has lost its timeliness, its "relevance" for the present generation of students, whose moniker, Generation X, suggests at once that they are an unknown, yet-to-be-determined quantity, even to themselves, and that they are branded by a self-evidently lackluster generic uniformity. The X that marks them would seem to indicate that this generation is approaching some end point or limit to history as we have experienced and understood it.
This apparent break--or impending vacuum--in historical consciousness has profound consequences for the teaching of literature generally, and the modern novel in particular. It is important to remember, and dangerous for me as...
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...s teachers, we are not obliged to accept a political or otherwise ideological definition of "the real, it follows that we make a claim for art as proposing new images, new thresholds, new antinomies.
--Denis Donoghue
This sidebar is extracted, with permission, from Denis Donoghue's The Old Moderns: Essays on Literature and Theory, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1994.
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