tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post111273882606821520..comments2023-10-07T08:52:16.715-07:00Comments on The Virtual World: Close Readings with CPPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-1112845123225540712005-04-06T20:38:00.000-07:002005-04-06T20:38:00.000-07:00Paglia often has more opinions than she has facts,...Paglia often has more opinions than she has facts, her explanation of the decline of close reading being a case in point.<BR/><BR/>Much of the reaction against New Criticism originated in its treatment of the text as an autonomous, autotelic object. This is, in fact, an ideological position, and one that was (or is) part and parcel of Cold War cultural politics.<BR/><BR/>By and large, the variousThe Sublibrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17307271499817792756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-1112836631129633942005-04-06T18:17:00.000-07:002005-04-06T18:17:00.000-07:00Emily: I so agree with you about how CP goes a lit...Emily: I so agree with you about how CP goes a little (a lot) overboard now and then (all the time). I love her ananlysis of Plath's "Daddy" and several of the others in the book. But her take on the O'Hara poem is just plain ludicrous. It's a crummy poem (not his best work by far); and her fawning over it just makes matters worse, IMHO.<BR/>I'll read more and get back to you . . .<BR/>The one Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11435013887780629734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238581.post-1112765401513612192005-04-05T22:30:00.000-07:002005-04-05T22:30:00.000-07:00Hi, Peter--I blogged a bit about B,B,B while you w...Hi, Peter--<BR/><BR/>I blogged a bit about B,B,B while you were at AWP, but just in a dipping-in way: I hadn't read the preface til just now after reading your post.<BR/><BR/>Interesting how Paglia touches on so many "hot topics" that have been recently blogged about or debated, just in the preface: <BR/><BR/>"...shocked at how weak <I>individual</I> poems have become over the past 40 years" Emily Lloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03920886883651975823noreply@blogger.com