Very useful. It's not that I would expect you to find time out of your already busy schedule but it would be wonderful if there was an extra credit lecture inserted here concerning the new critics. Maybe your students would find it useful as well. Your lectures have helped me build the reading list I've been looking for, more is better.
I used to teach the New Critics in my contemporary lit theory class as a standalone lecture, but I found that I couldn’t get to the more recent contemporary material. I deal with it in a few other lectures, but not on its own any longer. I also regret it.
I think Eagleton's analysis of power makes sense. Just as in the 18th century, the middle class had to LEARN how to behave around their betters, today the upper classes school the middle classes on political correctness / social justice. Then the middle class pass this further on through DEI training in the workplace.
The interesting struggle seems to be between Longinus (human nature, greatness of spirit), on the one hand, and the romantics, on the other, (Shelley, Elliot, Bloom, Wilde, the aesthetes, gnostics, William Blake).
Plenty of people have pointed out the WOKE are the latest incarnation of the puritans, abolitionist, progressives. They ARE building on Christian tradition.
Thank you Dr. Scott for what you're doing, making these lectures available to the public
Very useful. It's not that I would expect you to find time out of your already busy schedule but it would be wonderful if there was an extra credit lecture inserted here concerning the new critics. Maybe your students would find it useful as well. Your lectures have helped me build the reading list I've been looking for, more is better.
I used to teach the New Critics in my contemporary lit theory class as a standalone lecture, but I found that I couldn’t get to the more recent contemporary material.
I deal with it in a few other lectures, but not on its own any longer. I also regret it.
@@LitProf I don't suppose you can recommend a book or two that you find useful in understanding them.
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I think Eagleton's analysis of power makes sense. Just as in the 18th century, the middle class had to LEARN how to behave around their betters, today the upper classes school the middle classes on political correctness / social justice. Then the middle class pass this further on through DEI training in the workplace.
The interesting struggle seems to be between Longinus (human nature, greatness of spirit), on the one hand, and the romantics, on the other, (Shelley, Elliot, Bloom, Wilde, the aesthetes, gnostics, William Blake).
Plenty of people have pointed out the WOKE are the latest incarnation of the puritans, abolitionist, progressives. They ARE building on Christian tradition.