File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1998/phillitcrit.9803, message 23


Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 08:58:30 -0700
From: "Michael S. Harrawood" <MichaelH-AT-UWyo.Edu>
Subject: RE: PLC: [H-BLOOM] Western Canon University (www.westerncanon.com)


Greg,

About "conservative poetry," you write:
>
>Yes. Modern and contemporary culture are big and complex, and there's no one
>specific off-the-shelf ideology, left or right, that contains all of it. See
>new formalism, new narrative, etc. Dana Gioia, etc.
>
This sounds very interesting.  But the appeal of the Jolly Roger crowd
isn't to bigness and complexity, its to getting things right (again).
The problem voiced in the material Reg cited -- and this was the case
also when they were runnning around spamming lists like this one a
couple of years back -- is the apparent contradiction between wanting a
return to a universalized poetry (which is why ethnicity and gender have
to go) and the up-front admission of the non-universality of their own
conservative project.  I guess the real question is who's universe it is
in the first place.

Michael Harrawood
>Laramie, WY


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