Word: textual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insistence that the Bible was a kind of magical authority. His oft-repeated statement, "The Bible says," leaves the impression that a simple reading of the scriptures will provide all the answers to life. Never a word is said about biblical criticism or the contemporary understanding of textual material. In the matter of authority, the teachings of the Church or the development of theology are never mentioned. Billy Graham gives to the Bible a kind of authority that would make even Martin Luther uncomfortable...
...second study would be a great mistake. To pursue the first, in one form,is the purpose of this spring's work in Marlowe and Shakespeare. If this work indicates anything useful about the nature of a course which might recognize officially a combination of textual study and stage presentation, such results would be interesting; but surely any formal proposal should be postponed until recognized problems are solved, if they can be. The range of potential achievement among Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, working on theater as amateurs, is immense; nobody wants "an Olympian troupe in the Loeb disguised as students...
...last capacity as a writer, Seltzer is blocked by a lack of secondary material; "No one went home and wrote down that Burbage was good last night as Hamlet and why." Using textual and stage notes, Seltzer must infer what the Elizabethans felt was real in terms of acting. "Every age thinks its own are is real. But obviously the Globe player differs from the method actor. The ideal of realism begins in the mind of the artist. It's the old idea of imitating nature...
...Summarize and evaluate, giving specific textual references, a book you read this summer. Be sure to include author and title. Make clear its relation to this course, to the literature of the period, to the movie. Show how its theme is reinforced by its structure...
Poirier, who is currently on sabbatical, was best known at Harvard for teaching Humanities 6, an introduction to literature emphasizing close textual analysis. His other courses included a survey of modern American fiction and a study of Joyce, Faulkner and Lawrence. Poirier has been at Harvard since...