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

[barbie gaze]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcQ8AmTefvQ&feature=related

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:

> 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.
>
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