Now, talk it out…now talk it out…West side talk it out…

As I read the posts from other bloggers, I am pulling at myself from within, torn over what is “right”…It seems there is no right. Every piece we have read thus far only seems to murk more the waters of my mind. I love literature. I want my students to love literature. [...]

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who knew the world went beyond the norton anthology?

After reading Literature and Literary Criticism the statement on page 211 sticks with me, “In reality, there has never been a fixed literary canon, as any diachronic examination of literature textbooks reveals–or a search of the contents pages of literary journals over the decades.”  I wonder how many teachers and professors would balk at this statement, and [...]

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The baggage of “literature”

  Taylor begins his article, “Literature and Literary Criticism,” by making a distinction between two terms in English Studies:  literary studies and literature.  He continues, distinguishing them in the following definitions:
The term literary studies… implies plurality, interdisciplinarity, and transition.  It is a term that implicitly acknowledges instability in the categories of knowledge and practice.  Literature, [...]

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