Why should you prefer firtz than other stories prescribed in your syllabus
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- Language and other maladies: Review of Sumana Roy’s ‘My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories’:
Sumana Roy’s penultimate work was a volume of poetry, Out of Syllabus, which, as the title suggests, hit out, not in so many words, of course, at the limitations of pedagogy — the bell might toll the end of a lesson in a particular subject in the classroom and the start of another, but outside the classroom all subjects overlap and watertight academic ‘streams’ merge into an ocean of knowledge. Roy is a professor — she speaks from experience.
Sumana Roy’s penultimate work was a volume of poetry, Out of Syllabus, which, as the title suggests, hit out, not in so many words, of course, at the limitations of pedagogy — the bell might toll the end of a lesson in a particular subject in the classroom and the start of another, but outside the classroom all subjects overlap and watertight academic ‘streams’ merge into an ocean of knowledge. Roy is a professor — she speaks from experience.Ironically, reading her latest collection of short stories, I felt I was locked up in a classroom and was being pelted with literary theory dressed up as fiction, because the teacher seemed to have decided that a story is the best way to make lesser mortals like her students grasp complex theory.
Sumana Roy’s penultimate work was a volume of poetry, Out of Syllabus, which, as the title suggests, hit out, not in so many words, of course, at the limitations of pedagogy — the bell might toll the end of a lesson in a particular subject in the classroom and the start of another, but outside the classroom all subjects overlap and watertight academic ‘streams’ merge into an ocean of knowledge. Roy is a professor — she speaks from experience.Ironically, reading her latest collection of short stories, I felt I was locked up in a classroom and was being pelted with literary theory dressed up as fiction, because the teacher seemed to have decided that a story is the best way to make lesser mortals like her students grasp complex theory.It’s not an unexciting exercise per se — Oxford professor Iris Murdoch habitually pumped philosophy into her novels and the result was dizzying most often — but Roy, unfortunately, is neither here nor there.