I have to admit that for me Berlin’s book was at times a struggle to read. He seemed rather boring and occasionally difficult to grasp- perhaps because I am not that interested in rhetoric which he mainly discusses as being central to English studies. However, I did find the second half of the book somewhat more [...]
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Making the abstract concrete
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Berlin, culture, english studies on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Literature, Criticism and Interdisciplinarity
Posted in thoughts, tagged absolutes, culture, interdisciplinarity, Literary Criticism, literature on September 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just finished reading Taylor’s “Literature and Literary Criticism”, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I especially enjoyed his thoughts about the literary canon, and his assertions that the canon is always in flux, more a product of current social conditions and philosophies than a static, nonsensical list of dead white guys.
“One of the fundamental observations of [...]
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