5 Oct: 'Unteaching': Edward Thomas on teaching, and teaching Edward Thomas
Join us as Guy Cuthbertson reflects upon his own experience of teaching Thomas's poetry and prose at universities, and he will also discuss Edward Thomas's thoughts about school, university and teaching. Thomas refers in 'Lob' to how 'he never could spare time for school / To unteach what the fox so well expressed', and 'unteaching', interpreted in different ways, can be a useful way of thinking about Thomas, school and university. Bad teaching is in fact unteaching, but when teaching Thomas's work there is often a need to do some beneficial unteaching.
Tickets include museum admission.
About Guy Cuthbertson:
Professor of British Literature and Culture. I mostly work on the literature of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the Edwardian era, the First World War, and the 1920s, and I have published widely on Edward Thomas (1878-1917) and Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). I also work on D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930). I am interested in many things, including the First World War, and a wide range of literature; but as a researcher I've been especially interested in a number of related themes, including 'Back to the Land' movements, the simple life, the natural world, environmentalism, ideas of 'home', and, indeed, joy, hope and celebration. A key theme of my work tends to be writers' preference for the countryside rather than the city, and a literary scepticism about modern life and technology. Rebels, poets, soldiers and outsiders are always interesting, but so too are folk culture, old buildings and the countryside. I gave the British Academy's Chatterton Lecture on Poetry in 2018, on Edward Thomas, later published as '"I should want nothing more":
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Join us as Guy Cuthbertson reflects upon his own experience of teaching Thomas's poetry and prose at universities, and he will also discuss Edward Thomas's thoughts about school, university and teaching. Thomas refers in 'Lob' to how 'he never could spare time for school / To unteach what the fox so well expressed', and 'unteaching', interpreted in different ways, can be a useful way of thinking about Thomas, school and university. Bad teaching is in fact unteaching, but when teaching Thomas's work there is often a need to do some beneficial unteaching.
Tickets include museum admission.
About Guy Cuthbertson:
Professor of British Literature and Culture. I mostly work on the literature of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the Edwardian era, the First World War, and the 1920s, and I have published widely on Edward Thomas (1878-1917) and Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). I also work on D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930). I am interested in many things, including the First World War, and a wide range of literature; but as a researcher I've been especially interested in a number of related themes, including 'Back to the Land' movements, the simple life, the natural world, environmentalism, ideas of 'home', and, indeed, joy, hope and celebration. A key theme of my work tends to be writers' preference for the countryside rather than the city, and a literary scepticism about modern life and technology. Rebels, poets, soldiers and outsiders are always interesting, but so too are folk culture, old buildings and the countryside. I gave the British Academy's Chatterton Lecture on Poetry in 2018, on Edward Thomas, later published as '"I should want nothing more":
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