“Through a plurality of women, including Adriana Cavarero, Hannah Arendt, and Ingeborg Bachmann, Ferrante explodes the singular ‘I’ who writes. . . . When we tell a story (our own or someone else’s), we are always, for better or worse, every piece of literature we have consumed.”
True, no one wants to turn anyone away from reading. But YA is still a developmental level of reading, and there are coming-of-age novels, as Jiordan Castle says, that aspire and succeed to more.
Wow, I mean, we are what we read, right?
An unsettling argument from Chinese literature professor Nie Zhenzhao: that in this article, AI can replace poets but more, that it can be read free of subjectivity and “personal bias.” His position is elaborated more in this link which describes his Ethical Literary Criticism. Do I sense a political double-speak between these two articles? https://sfs.ustb.edu.cn/en/mediacenter/bulletins/2020-10-13/223.html
I’m always keen to read this book, and this recent review by M. A. Orthofer of Literary Saloon reminds me to pick it up again!
A new translation of Homer’s Iliad? Why not? More, what really are we after in reading it in the first place? I have recommended the Fagles verion, but now . . .
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