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'This essay is haunted by a poem. Reflecting on my experiences of reading and writing as a student and academic, Sylvia Plath's 'Lady Lazarus' makes its presence felt in that 'metaphysical meeting space'. At the heart of the poem is the monosyllable 'charge' and Plath's risky choice to repeat it four times in five lean lines. The repetition insists on the pursuit of generating charge, in all the complex connotations of that word, within the 'geometry of connections' generated by reading. (Author's introduction, 307)
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Epigraph: What process was this? What self-complication? What séance of other lives in her own imagination? Reading was this metaphysical meeting space - peculiar, specific, ardent, unusual - She learned how other people entered the adventure of being alive...There were sight-lines, image tokens, between people and objects and words on a page, that knitted the whole world in the purest geometry of connections. (Gail Jones, Sixty Lights, p. 114)
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The Charged Classroom : Reading Like Writers, Writing Like Readers
Subjects:
- Sixty Lights 2004 single work novel
- The Orchard 1995 single work prose
- The Floor of Heaven 1992 selected work poetry
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