Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
New Books in Literary Studies
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How to Invoke Your Own Experience in a Conversation
I think that's actually, maybe quite natural in a way quite human in a way I think it can be politicized really easily or it can become as you said the end of a conversation. Can it also be the starting point where someone says what would it mean for you for somebody to invoke their own experience in a way that is the wrong kind of authority? That informs and deepens the conversation understanding rather than I'm going to shut down the other point of view because I know this because I've lived through something. How do we acknowledge and incorporate our experiences, which is always there and guiding our response to texts and what we're saying about them?" "That's a very good question
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