[lbo-talk] Terry Eagleton and the Gospels

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On 12/22/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> "Postmodern" is as vague (and perhaps eventually as useful but still
> confusing) as romanticism, classicism, neoclassicism, baroque, modern,
> silver age, Georgian, Edwardian, Victorian, byzantine, augustan,
> Elizabethan, "long 16th c.," enlightenment, etc. For the assertion that
> "Q is Victorian" to mean anything one must add a qualifying paragraph or
> so, and that is the case with all the other labels.

it occurs to me, btw, that this goes to my point about eagleton not
particularizing his critique of "postmodernism."

and i'm way overposted for the day. sorry. making up for lost time, i guess.

j