> Okay...I need an explanation for using a T.S. Eliot quote to support pomo > ideology - or at least some kind of understanding of what discipline it is in > which you feel you can make the application that it does. While I understand > the sort of dialectical 'chain of events' which led to pomo theory in Lit. > Crit, Eliot himself basically WAS New Criticism - a subset of Formalism - and > is a far cry from things normally associated (e.g., post-structuralism, etc) > with pomo. Just looking for understanding here, not one-upsmanship. You can > hit me off list.
i'll leave it on list, it warrants explanation. i was fully aware of the irony of using the eliot quote to support a postmodern argument, for the reasons you gave; he was quintessentially modern, not pomo. i almost cut his quote from my reply though, since i was responding more to the "get over trying to be 'original,' everything's been done, just try to do it better" idea. my apologies if this was unclear. /j
