[lbo-talk] FW: [Milton-L] Redundancy of Evaluative Terms was RE: Shakespeare vs. Milton in London, Sunday, 22 June.

JOANNA A. 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Jun 19 09:29:36 PDT 2014


I'm not sure I'd call it elitism.

Joanna

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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.

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