NP..."Like a patient etherized upon a table".....

[Matthew Cissell]

In "Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation", John Guillory addresses Eliot's substitution of Donne and the Metaphysical poets for the Romantics, he also discusses the development of a 'canon of theory'. 
    Eliot displaces Arnold, and then Bloom displaces Eliot. Part of the Lit Crit game we have invented. That's how I see it.
 
Remember, one man's BS is another man's fertilizer.
 
MC Otis 

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 6:19 PM
Subject: NP..."Like a patient etherized upon a table".....


PaulVermeersch Somehow, the study of English literature became the study of French philosophy without anyone calling bullshit.

I don't know who this tweeter is, but if you have, as I have, refurbished some of your English Lit background with more immersion
in T. S. Eliot (and pal Ezra)'s profound influence on modernism in literature---T.S. with a PhD in Bergson and a formative 
self-education in the French Symbolists---we see it in TRP and WG (I think) and John Ashbery and
many others, then this remark can strike one. 

No wonder Bloom disses T.S. and praises Emerson to the heavens, transcendentally.