Doug Henwood wrote: > I was at Yale from 1971 to 1975 when the English department was really > cooking - Bloom, Hartman, de Man, Derrida sometimes. You may find that gang > to be full of it - I didn't, and still don't - but it was intellectually very > alive.<
I think I've figured out what I don't like about literary criticism. It's not the lit crit _per se_ (after all, a lot of economics is BS, too). It's just that there's so little follow-through to write novels and other literature based on the criticisms. But since I'm not a literatum, my vision of this issue is likely blurred at best. My barb is based on generalization from experience with so many "heterodox" economists who talk about methodology but so seldom apply what they perceive as a correct methodology; if they do, they rarely seem to come out with much in the way of new understandings of reality. I'm not against discussions of methodology _per se_ as much as _stopping_ with it. -- Jim Devine / "In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness." -- George Bernard Shaw _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
