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• Title: Introduction: Value Added (International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts) (Work Overview)
• Author : Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 58 KB

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Every year in the middle of March, I fly off to Florida to take part in the gathering known as the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. The flight not only takes me from the mountainous northwest to the semitropical southeast but also from one dilemma to another. At home, I've been trying to help students bridge the gap between their experience and knowledge and the demands of some literary text. When I arrive at the conference hotel and see the assembled writers, editors, and publishers, I'm always reminded of another sort of gap--the distance between producers of literature and mere consumers. For scholars and teachers are not so different from our struggling students: we too find ourselves awestruck by powerful and elegant stories and unwilling to believe that mere mortals produced them. This recognition can lead to a crisis of confidence. Who are we but a bunch of older and grayer students in an endless discussion section? How do our learned essays differ from our pupils' fumbling efforts at explication? Is our work merely parasitic, as more than a few writers have intimated (though not, thankfully, those who come regularly to the Conference)?

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