tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246709.post110779332644879634..comments2023-12-22T19:52:13.198-05:00Comments on Fernham: Top ten lists, literary criticism, and the pleasures of pointlessnessAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03281027116636227323noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246709.post-1108409065123988592005-02-14T14:24:00.000-05:002005-02-14T14:24:00.000-05:00Thanks, Genevieve.
(The Hollander book is amazing....Thanks, Genevieve.<br />(The Hollander book is amazing.)<br />This is an old conversation, I do think that blogs give it a new spin. But, it's at least as old as the beginning of the professors writing about English literature (think Matthew Arnold or so--Victorian days). Some people always have found professors (and I am one) dusty, boring, deadening while others have gotten tired of the lack of rigor in more essayistic writing.<br />Australia, by the way, is wildly ahead of the curve in being smart about how to write intellectually about things other than literature--cultural studies.<br />Cheers!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03281027116636227323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246709.post-1108342437870538212005-02-13T19:53:00.000-05:002005-02-13T19:53:00.000-05:00Hi Anne, visiting from Bud's place and thanks for ...Hi Anne, visiting from Bud's place and thanks for the interesting post. I agree there is a place between theory and criticism where serious readers should gather, and have had a ball following the conversation since I happened upon TEV discussing <I>The Great Fire</I> last October or so. Is it new? I'm not sure, speaking from a more insular literary culture here in Australia, I'm starting to think a little about what is and isn't different about this. But it is certainly fun.genevievehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02895689949182365454noreply@blogger.com