Love as a Reading Principle | Carissa Foo | TEDxYale NUS College

What made Heathcliff return to the moors? What was it that wretchedly altered Anne Elliot? Love has always been written into literature: sometimes romance is genre, at other times desire is subplot. In worlds rife with brutality and suffering, any thread of love can be a lifeline. The practice of reading finely and lovingly will lead us to surprising ways of discovering texts. Carissa Foo is a literary critic and fiction writer. She received her Ph.D. from Durham University, with a research interest in twentieth-century women’s writing and its dialogues with spatial theory and queer studies.
Intrigue with the Peripatetic school fed a study on nomadism in the works of modernist women writers; from street haunting to hotel hopping, she reads narratives of women’s lived experience and feminine modes of navigation in inhospitable worlds.

Her most recent publication is a reading of temporal tensions in Xiaolu Guo’s romance narratives (Feminist Encounters) and a collection of short stories, No Wonder, Women (Penguin Random House SEA). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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