{"id":3523,"date":"2009-10-02T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2009-10-02T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T13:41:00","slug":"celebrity-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/02\/celebrity-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Scholars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3524\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/booth.jpg\" alt=\"booth\" width=\"188\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2009\/10\/02\/who%e2%80%99s-anatomy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bob\u2019s account<\/a> of the exchange between Frye and Wayne Booth\u00a0(above)\u00a0is a fascinating snapshot of an encounter between two great critics; a bit like the camera catching Tom Brady and Peyton Manning chatting before a game. And then I thought of the extent to which some critics had a kind of celebrity status, at least within the academic world, in the 1980s. One reviewer referred to <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=GoMOAAAAQAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=Imre+Salusinszky+criticism+in+society#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Imre Salusinszky\u2019s 1987 collection of interviews<\/a> with various critics as the first hard-cover theory fan magazine, which did not do justice to an excellent book, but which probably did reflect the way that many of us read it (and looked at the photos).<\/p>\n<p>Which made me wonder which critics, if any, have the same wide appeal today. Is literary studies too fragmented into subdisciplines and competing approaches for anyone to be able to have this authority now, or could another <em>Anatomy of Criticism<\/em> or <em>Rhetoric of Fiction<\/em> come along, another book that everyone has to read and discuss?<\/p>\n<p>The late Edward Said was one such figure: <em>Culture and Imperialism<\/em> was published by a commercial press and must have sold widely, following on the immense influence of <em>Orientalism<\/em>. Terry Eagleton\u2019s books also have a considerable profile.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d be very interested to hear what others think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob\u2019s account of the exchange between Frye and Wayne Booth\u00a0(above)\u00a0is a fascinating snapshot of an encounter between two great critics; a bit like the camera catching Tom Brady and Peyton Manning chatting before a game. 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