tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post1024810029880079117..comments2024-03-10T23:01:51.493-05:00Comments on Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing: Canon / Federico García MárquezJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-42660238196866631912013-03-13T13:57:07.851-05:002013-03-13T13:57:07.851-05:00Duende, Lord it is true. (I think it was Hugo Achú...Duende, Lord it is true. (I think it was Hugo Achúgar who at one point refused to allow anyone from English to study magical realism, or anyone from Spanish to specialize in the country they were from. Prophylactic measures against all kinds of essentializing.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-31894940645450970342013-03-13T12:42:07.223-05:002013-03-13T12:42:07.223-05:00I'm more concerned for the moment with the mis...I'm more concerned for the moment with the misapprehension of the traditional canon debate, which frames things deceptively The Gray reference comes from a chapter of Guillory's Cultural Capital. <br /><br />I am kind of conservative on this issue, in a way. I'll have more to say on this later. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-70609455411043612402013-03-13T11:16:56.023-05:002013-03-13T11:16:56.023-05:00Are you mixing up the Elegy with the Ode on a Dist...Are you mixing up the Elegy with the Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College? ;-) In any case, your very allusion should make clear the conservative tendency of this line of thought. Not that I think you're afraid of that, or that that makes it wrong.Vance Maverickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07477306994564623348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-67266207448373698522013-03-13T09:42:59.788-05:002013-03-13T09:42:59.788-05:00Right. And you can only question the canon itself...Right. And you can only question the canon itself on political grounds, like Milton was sexist. That makes it seem that Milton is canonical because he was a man, and makes us forget about the mute inglorious Miltons. <br /><br />Though the mute inglorious Miltons are mute because they are illiterate and buried in a country schoolyard. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-7406373873679751242013-03-13T09:39:57.026-05:002013-03-13T09:39:57.026-05:00I think you're saying that since
To study the...I think you're saying that since<br /><br /><i>To study the non-canon, in fact, you have to make an argument for the value or interest of the material, usually on social, political, or "cultural" grounds. </i><br /><br />it comes to seem that those grounds account for its non-canonicity.<br /><br />The argument for Anthony Powell sounds like something I should undertake -- along theVance Maverickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07477306994564623348noreply@blogger.com