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----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:08:15 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Cornel West at the Left Forum
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:29:24 -0500 "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Those who claim some sophistication in responding to a text (of any
> sort) hardly live up to their claims when they are so utterly
> innocent of genre as West's critics seem to be.
I plead guilty of genre; I commit it all the time. Wilfully, consciously, and in cold blood.
But to what genre, exactly, was West's rodomontade supposed to belong? It wasn't tragical, historical, or even pastoral -- though it was comical; not in a generic sense, however. It wasn't homiletic, exegetic, lyric; wasn't Pindaric, gnomic, Cynic, Phillipic, Jeremaiac, Socratic, rabbinic, scholastic, erotic, panegyric, or even macaronic. I really don't know what to call it except pathetic.
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