Garth Greenwell: On a Sex Scene in Miranda July's All Fours—and…
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Taking Offense
Reading through bad feeling
Garth Greenwell
Louisa Clement, Skin Interlacion 18, 2022. Courtesy the artist and Eigen + Art Gallery
I CAME TO ALL of Jane Austen’s novels late, and to Persuasion particularly so, finally discovering it in a graduate seminar on the long eighteenth century. By that time, I had fallen in love with... See more
Taking Offense
Reading through bad feeling
Garth Greenwell
Louisa Clement, Skin Interlacion 18, 2022. Courtesy the artist and Eigen + Art Gallery
I CAME TO ALL of Jane Austen’s novels late, and to Persuasion particularly so, finally discovering it in a graduate seminar on the long eighteenth century. By that time, I had fallen in love with... See more
Garth Greenwell: On a Sex Scene in Miranda July's All Fours—and…
I think about this often in class, when students sometimes shut down in response to offensiveness in a work of art I see as having this kind of value. I find myself using two metaphors that are a little contradictory—or maybe not contradictory; maybe they’re two steps in a process. One is a metaphor of suspension. I don’t want to shut down my stude... See more