On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 5, 2011, at 1:12 PM, c b wrote:
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> > Eliot, Pound, Stein (protected by Vichy French), Nietzsche. There
> > seems to be a correlation between rightwing politics and major lit
> > crit/ aesthetic philosophers credentials.
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> Shelley? Whitman? Ginsberg, even?
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> Doug
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Don't you have to exclude Raymond WIlliams and most all of what's come
to be called Cultural Studies to make this argument? Or is this a
disciplinary stance... there's a raft of critical cultural criticism
that includes but transcends lit, no?
^^^^ CB: Yes, though I don't think Williams is big time celebrity like Eliot , Pound and Stein. I guess I was sort of thinking American, too.
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Does Borges count, or is lit crit limited to critics only, not writers?
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^^^^^ CB I think Borges's politics were sort of right. I'm thinking of Eliot , Pound and Stein in their critic/meta-artist capacities.