tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post4627481500717730505..comments2024-01-06T10:36:04.084-05:00Comments on A Commonplace Blog: Doctrine suspended in the voidD. G. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-70421787852867952952009-04-18T04:17:00.000-04:002009-04-18T04:17:00.000-04:00How sad!
that just ANYONE should be allowed to mer...How sad!<br />that just ANYONE should be allowed to mercilessly take pen to paper and call himself a critic, a gatekeeper, a TEACHER.<br /><br />I'm mocking a bit, but I have to agree. I surely wouldn't (didn't!) want to learn from any of these "bureaucrats of literature" as you've described them, but it happens.<br />:(<br /><br />AND...<br />What can account for there not being a more collective critical consciousness? Sure, there are literary movements which echo themselves in criticism... but does criticism have an agenda independent of the literature to which it relates?<br /><br />Should there be a code of critical conduct? Instead of sovereign schools of thought, several strains of "doctrine suspended in the void”?<br /><br />I don't know the answers to any of these questions. or even if they're the right questions to ask.Rebecca V. O'Nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920443685663707856noreply@blogger.com