Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Canon fodder …

… A Commonplace Blog: Reply to critics of “Academe Quits Me”. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In light of the comments to my essay yesterday, I’d go one step farther now. The canon is the name by which calls for the restoration of order and coherence to literary study are misunderstood in advance and rejected out of hand without additional examination.

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