Weaving the Text: The 70th Birthday Edition of the 1994 Dissertation

"Something seems to have happened while I was working with Shakespeare's text and with Heidegger's notion of 'letting learn.' It has become increasingly difficult to 'impose' my interpretation on the students. My suggestions find more resistance from my students as they gain a greater sense of what it means to 'suit the action to the word' (Hamlet) and as they learn to turn to the sources of self and text. I also find that resistance growing within myself.

"'Letting learn' requires letting g...