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Originally Posted by Catlady
One more time--some of us are objecting to the excruciating levels of analysis, not to any and all discussion and evaluation of the work being read. It serves no purpose other than to make reading boring, and I doubt that's the goal.
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This!!!
I guess it's sort of like pornography - you'll know the right amount of analysis when you see it
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And that's part, I suspect, of what makes a great teacher - the ability to figure out when the analysis and discussion are adding to the students' understanding and appreciation of the work, and when the analysis and discussion are killing all interest in the work.
But, for me, at least, there definitely is a point where too much is too much, and there are a number of books which I suspect are really pretty good, but which have been spoiled for me by being forced to over-analyze them.