Students are people living, dreaming, brilliant with fragile skin. As a people, they have a power of poetical playfulness and a freedom of language that escapes them when they are isolated.
Hélène Cixous (1998)
Hélène Cixous associates a body of people – ‘students’ – with the development of a special way of thinking about and responding to language. A literature student needs to read effectively and write critically, in other words, to engage in critical practice. As we have seen in the sections Critical Reading and Critical Writing, this practice is informed by a sense of discussion.
This section explores the idea of critical discussion: what it means, why it is important, and how you can become involved in it.
