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Re: Momentum? Trajectory?

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Michael Seanger <[log in to unmask]>

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I have no argument with the Berger point, although it does suggest that
we may be looking for personal scholarship rather than a "movement".
And maybe that's not a bad thing; I've heard (and used) terms like "New
Textualism", "New Economic Criticism"; useful, each.  But for better or
worse we seem to be unable to synthesize the quite interesting
sholarship now underway under a banner that isn't hopelessly reductive,
or cryptically opaque.  Perhaps what I experienced in 1995 (around the
time of Kastan's comment), was the expectation of a new and clear
movement, because I had been taught that  such waves arrive every ten
years or so.  And I'm still waiting.  But maybe the absense of a strong
wave, which have notoriously dragged much bad scholarship along with
them,  allows for a  different (better?) kind of  environment, one
characterized by a variety of interesting cross-currents.

David L. Miller wrote:

>If slogans are wanted, I always rather liked David Kastan's
>proclamation, delivered about ten years ago at MLA, of "The New Boredom"
>in literary study.  Cultural studies informed by patient archival
>drudgery, hard-nosed bibliographic and textual studies, but with a
>theoretical edige.
>
>Then there's postcolonial hybridity, history of the family, and the new
>formalism, which seeks to rehabilitate the aesthetic as a category.
>
>My money is on two prospects:
>
>1.  Anything written by Harry Berger;
>
>and
>
>2.  The Turn to Religion Turns to Theory.  When the turn from New
>Historicism to Neo-Angican studies finally remembers that Derrida wrote
>extensively on religion during the last 15 years of his life, the whole
>endeavor is likely to get a lot more interesting.
>
>
>
>David Lee Miller
>Professor of English & Comparative Literature
>University of South Carolina
>Columbia, SC  29208
>
>[log in to unmask]
>803 777-4256 (office)
>803 777-9064 (fax)
>803 466-3947 (cell)
>
>
>
>
>
>>>>[log in to unmask] 4/23/2005 2:02:47 PM >>>
>>>>
>>>>
>I got that article and read it -- it's very interesting.  Of course, I
>couldn't help notice that Jackson and Marotti's touted "Turn to
>Religion" sounds remarkably appropriate to our own post-9/11
>zeitgeist,
>with "The Passion of the Christ", God on the cover of Newsweek with
>some
>frequency, etc.  Of course, I think Marotti and Jackson have a point
>--
>my own criticism addresses pious literature, because I think it's very
>interesting.  But another thing that strikes me is that J and M's
>notion
>of where we are going seems remarkably different to Harry's.  And
>neither stance attaches itself to a marketable banner headline -- it
>seems as if we refer to what we do as New Historicism, almost by
>default
>(apres la lettre?).
>
>Michael
>
>Bryan John Lowrance wrote:
>
>
>
>>Dear Michael,
>>
>>An interesting article for this is Ken Jackson and Arthur F. Marotti,
>>
>>
>"The
>
>
>>Turn to Religion in Early Modern Studies," Criticism, vol, 46, n. 1.
>>(Winter 2004) pp. 167-90.  It provides good bibliography and overview
>>
>>
>of a
>
>
>>lot of recent scholarship as well as providing some interesting
>>theoretical analysis.  If your school subscribes to Project Muse,
>>
>>
>it's
>
>
>>available on that.
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Bryan Lowrance.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Dear All,
>>>
>>>I'm just finishing up a project with a student on her way to grad
>>>school, and the idea is to get her oriented on graduate study
>>>
>>>
>(literary
>
>
>>>studies generally, and English Renaissance in particular).  She asked
>>>
>>>
>an
>
>
>>>interesting question yesterday, which was, where are we currently?
>>>
>>>
>When
>
>
>>>I was at her stage in 1992, we all had a pretty clear idea of where
>>>
>>>
>the
>
>
>>>momentum was in literary scholarship, even though there were clearly
>>>differing schools and opinions -- all scholarship seemed to be
>>>positioned in one way or another with regard to the New Historicism.
>>>
>>>
>So
>
>
>>>I thought I'd turn the question out to the group: Is there a
>>>
>>>
>collective
>
>
>>>sense that we are operating in a particular phase of criticism --
>>>
>>>
>either
>
>
>>>as Spenserians, Sidneyans, or more generally?
>>>
>>>All the best,
>>>
>>>Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

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