5 December 2002So you want to be a literary criticOn the off-chance that some of you aren't reading Cinderella Bloggerfeller, I point you to the latest exposition from Cindi's bloggergänger Dr. Dinah Dienstag, unexpectedly appearing on a Thursday for once. (I doubt there will be a name change to "Donnerstag", but you never know.) This time, the good Doctor brings us a list of Essential Clichés, bits of cant which simply can't be overlooked by anyone seeking to make his mark in the murk of Post-Modern Criticism. Or something like that. In the midst of all the pseudo-literary bushwa circulating these days, it's kind of hard to tell. Mandy Montag, Dinah Dienstag, Millicent Mittwoch, Dorothy Donnerstag, Frieda Freitag, Samantha Samstag and, er, Susan Sontag...there's a whole working week of idiotarian analysts at the University of North-South-West Rhode Island Red. Posted by: C. Bloggerfeller at 2:17 AM on 6 December 2002Sontag, I assume, is the, um, sheep of colour of the family. Posted by: CGHill at 7:08 AM on 6 December 2002How did you manage to spot the odd one out? Posted by: C. Bloggerfeller at 11:06 AM on 6 December 2002Residual grudge from being assigned "Notes on Camp" in English Comp 101 back in the Pleistocene era. Posted by: CGHill at 1:11 PM on 6 December 2002 |