July 22, 2012
The neo-canonicity of F. R. Leavis
My first ingestion of F. R. Leavis’s 1953 essay “The ‘Great Books’ and a Liberal Education” resulted in the British critic’s own volume being thrown across the room. What was […]
April 20, 2010
The Verray Parfit Praktisour
Sam put it that, in the good-books spectrum, there’s popular writing (Red Dragon, The Time Traveler’s Wife) (“easy”)– shading into Great Literature (Nightwood, Ulysses, Omensetter’s Luck) (“hard”)– shading into the […]