Wednesday, February 28, 2007


Can There Be a Conservative Literary Theory? --
Scott Eric Kaufman of The Valve writes about it on his blog Acephalous
here and here.

Here's his conclusion:
In this respect, I think the multiculturalist have cornered the cultural traditionalists, forcing them into a position either visibly incoherent (the false universalism of Shakespeare) or spectacularly racist (Dead and White, That's What's Right! Dead and White, That's What's Right!). The latter's utterly untenable in this political climate; the former's philosophically incoherent and intellectually dishonest in the extreme. They may have people whose goals seem consonant with theirs, like Harold Bloom, but were they to read Bloom, they'd find him equally objectionable to the critics they'd hoped he'd replace.
(1:46 AM)

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