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The unteaching of literature: we murder to dissect.
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The current approach to the teaching of imaginative literature is designed to maintain what seems to be a professional necessity: the distinction between the capacities of teacher and student to respond to literature. However, the fact must eventually be faced that a work of imaginative literature is not made accessible to anyone by means of an "explanation" presented after the work is read. Imaginative writings are composed primarily, not to be thought about or discussed, but to be experienced imaginatively, to be lived vicariously, at the moment of reading. No teacher may assume that an intellectually enriching "interpretation," however brilliantly ...
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