Distinguished academic Sarah Nuttall talks about the current climate in literary studies at the University of Stellenbosch's research seminar on 3 March 2011 organised by Professor Meg Samuelson.

Sarah Nuttall: "Some thoughts on the way we read now" (2 of 3)

Sarah Nuttall: "Some thoughts on the way we read now" (3 of 3)

Summary

"Symptomatic reading is increasingly unable to respond to the wider culture we inhabit. The work of literary criticism has lost its claim to the political edge, the activist possibility that if we see differently we can change the world. And there is a rising hunger for reality -- not just in others, in some risible middle class which we despise -- but in ourselves."