On Jun 18, 2014, at 10:09 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Indeed. Not dry at all. And it would be inanely redundant to add to that
> analysis such empty terms as "great," "wonderful," etc. Critics use "great"
> to fill in when their description of a text is inadequate.
The concept just makes you uncomfortable. You quote Austen here - Pound and Milton elsewhere - and a rhetorical analysis of what makes the Austen passage tick. You won't find that in J.K. Rowling. I feel like telling you the same thing I tell John Halle about music - don't be afraid of your elitism. It's not believable.
Doug