@tnielsenhayden @zunguzungu Another move is to re-appropriate popular narrative in form of pastische or irony (Robert Coover or even Chabon)
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Replying to @HeerJeet
True! (I'm a science fiction editor.) Chabon and Lethem respect and credit their sources. Not everyone does.
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@tnielsenhayden@HeerJeet@zunguzungu I was taught in the New Criticism tradition, which excludes finding the narrative outside the work.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@jakedfw@HeerJeet@zunguzungu I've sometimes wondered whether the New Critics were trying to shed the excess burden of Southern history.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @tnielsenhayden
@tnielsenhayden That's certainly possible. John Crowe Ransom moved from U. Virginia to Kenyon in Ohio.@HeerJeet@zunguzungu1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@jakedfw@HeerJeet@zunguzungu Weren't more of them Southerners than JCR? It's been a long time since I was a litcrit editor.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@tnielsenhayden + I mean, never mind all that “history” and “biography” and “context.” Look over here!@jakedfw@HeerJeet@zunguzungu1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@pnh New crit sans context was pretty much out-of-fashion by the eighties though, right? +@tnielsenhayden@heerjeet@zunguzungu1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@jakedfw Oh, certainly.@tnielsenhayden@HeerJeet@zunguzungu2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@pnh@jakedfw@tnielsenhayden@HeerJeet in theory (ha!) But in practice? Still a huge part of pedogogy.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@zunguzungu @pnh @jakedfw @tnielsenhayden Yep, new criticism still default pedagogy in many schools
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