{"id":4059,"date":"2009-10-16T00:02:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T04:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2009-10-16T00:02:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T04:02:17","slug":"michael-sinding-big-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/16\/michael-sinding-big-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Sinding: Big Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve got some remarks on the interesting recent discussions about literary theory, cultural studies & new historicism, social aspects of literature, and the like. These remarks started out small but grew rapidly, as remarks are wont to do if they\u2019re not nipped in the bud.<\/p>\n

I agree about some of the problems in literary studies today diagnosed by others here. You do seem often to get, as Joe Adamson\u00a0suggests, an assumption that ethical issues are cut and dried, that it\u2019s obvious what the right opinions or ideologies are, and that they should be monitored. The critical work then gets highly political, without being highly ethical: they\u2019re not interested in thinking about, say, how a text might complicate ideas about what\u2019s right and wrong and why, just in castigating the wrong-thinkers and praising the right-thinkers.<\/p>\n

And I would agree with Russell Perkin that cultural studies and new historicist critics do pay a lot of attention to the social function of literature. The thing is, they tend to have quite a narrow notion of that social function\u2014essentially, as Joe says, that literature is a \u2018shill for the establishment\u2019. Often it\u2019s just assumed, but here\u2019s Franco Moretti<\/a> putting it baldly, in Signs Taken for Wonders<\/em> (1983, rpt. 2005): \u201clet us say that the substantial function of literature is to secure consent. To make individuals feel \u2018at ease\u2019 in the world they happen to live in, to reconcile them in a pleasant and imperceptible way to its prevailing cultural norms. This is the basic hypothesis\u201d (27). Moretti is a brilliant guy, but still. Why is the hypothesis so narrow, and basically wholly negative? Literature is just another kind of mystification. He may have changed his views since this book, but throughout, there is no hint that there is any other social function, or any other function at all. And it seems in line with views that persist today.<\/p>\n

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The big However is, that I would want to guard against a too simplistic and monolithic picture of what\u2019s actually going on across the landscape of literary studies, and within individual thinkers. Moretti, for example, breaks with many in being quite critical of deconstruction, and in striving, like Frye, to make criticism scientific-ish:<\/p>\n

criticism \u2026 has always taken its own empirical foundations lightly, and, instead of struggling to set up a scientific community with common aims and clear rules, has tacitly preferred to legitimate a state of affairs where everyone is free to do as they like. The lexico-grammatical euphoria of the last few years is only the latest episode in a long and illustrious tradition of intellectual irresponsibility. \u2026 If criticism can give itself a reasonably testable foundation, then rhetorical analysis will necessarily acquire a different status within the \u2018stronger\u2019 social sciences (24).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What\u2019s more, it\u2019s not as if all critics now (or all cultural studies and new historicist critics) think that literature is just all ideology, period, and operate in a closed bloc to damn, then demystify it. Not all are like that. So how about a few exceptions? Eve Sedgwick has been mentioned.<\/p>\n

I ran across a different kind of cultural studies at Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9\u2019s <\/a>blog:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.michaelberube.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(I can\u2019t recall how I found it; maybe through www.thevalve.org<\/a>.) B\u00e9rub\u00e9 is unlike the cultural studies stereotype\/ straw man in at least three ways: he thinks for himself, so is ready to criticize the eminences of Theory and some of its tendencies; he writes well; and he has a sense of humour. (The blog spends more time on political matters than on literary matters, at the moment at least, and unfortunately there\u2019s no organization by topic, but you can use the search box to find what you\u2019re interested in.) I especially liked his \u2018Theory Tuesday\u2019 posts, where he discusses, among other things, the lessons of the Sokal Hoax, recent books critical of poststructuralism, like Theory\u2019s Empire<\/em>, and takes on big names like Eagleton, Jameson, Fish, Althusser, Lacan, and others (and even Chomsky\u2019s political theories).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a quite different take on the Sokal Hoax<\/a>, and literary studies in the 1980s:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.michaelberube.com\/index.php\/theory_tuesday\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s his perspective on encountering knee-jerk traditionalists a few decades ago, the many professors who would simply scoff at anything \u201cFrench\u201d (Theory, Marxism, etc.) without giving it a hearing, wouldn\u2019t even ask historical and cultural questions, but just chant \u2018timeless, timeless, timeless\u2019 (as some cultural pundits indeed still do):<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.michaelberube.com\/index.php\/network_news\/<\/a><\/p>\n

He nicely puts it that what he calls the \u201cintellectual right\u201d \u201chasn\u2019t brought anything to the table in decades.\u00a0 Instead, they\u2019ve met each new school of criticism and theory since the advent of structuralism by singing that immortal Groucho Marx tune from Horse Feathers<\/em>, \u201cI\u2019m Against It<\/a>.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n

And far from encouraging right-wing mouthpieces, B\u00e9rub\u00e9 has made himself a nemesis of Arch-Wingnut David Horowitz<\/a>, who in the US has attempted, with disturbing progress if not success, to get the government to force humanities departments to be more right-wing, in the name of academic freedom and balanced opinions. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

So as a practitioner of cultural studies he sees the general landscape rather differently from the way it\u2019s been represented on this blog. A recent essay of his critically reflects on the relative marginality of CS.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Whats-the-Matter-With\/48334\/<\/a><\/p>\n

B\u00e9rub\u00e9 encouraged me to look more closely and carefully at cultural studies & new historicism, and I discovered that they are more complex and interesting than I had thought. When I looked through some anthologies, I continued to find some garbage, but I also found some gems. There were critics who are brilliant, and really opened my eyes to new perspectives and convinced me of some things, though I still disagreed with them about other things\u2014Raymond Williams<\/a>, Edward Said<\/a>, Stephen Greenblatt<\/a>, Louis Adrian Montrose<\/a>, Janice Radway<\/a>, Meaghan Morris<\/a>, for example. Oddly, with other thinkers like Foucault<\/a>, Bourdieu<\/a>, and Jameson,<\/a> I would find myself thinking, \u2018this is pretty brilliant, but basically wrong about some key things.\u2019 With still others, I just thought, \u2018this is not only wrong in a big way but batty\u2019\u2014unfortunately, some of these were the intellectual leaders: Barthes<\/a>, Althusser<\/a>, Baudrillard<\/a>. That may be why, for some of us, these schools start out with a black eye.<\/p>\n

And yet I found others still who occasionally sounded enough like Frye to show that they shared important ideas, while being involved in quite different projects.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Raymond Williams:<\/p>\n

art is one of the primary human activities, and [. . .] it can succeed in articulating not just the imposed or constitutive social or intellectual system, but at once this and an experience of it, its lived consequence, in ways very close to many other kinds of active response, [. . .] but of course often more accessibly, just because it is specifically formed and because when it is made it is in its own way complete, even autonomous, and being the kind of work it is can be transmitted and communicated beyond its original situation and circumstances (Culture and Materialism<\/em> 25).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Cornel West<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I call demystificatory criticism \u2018prophetic criticism\u2019\u2014the approach appropriate for the new cultural politics of difference\u2014because while it begins with social structural analyses it also makes explicit its moral and political aims. [. . .] Yet the aim of this evaluation is neither to pit art-objects against one another like race-horses nor to create eternal canons that dull, discourage, or even dwarf contemporary achievements. We listen to [these artists] not in order to undergird bureaucratic assents or enliven cocktail party conversations, but rather to be summoned by the styles they deploy for their profound insights, pleasure, and challenges. Yet, all evaluation\u2014including a delight in Eliot\u2019s poetry despite his reactionary politics, or a love of Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s novels despite her Republican party affiliations\u2014is inseparable, though not identical or reducible to social structural analyses, moral and political judgements, and the workings of a curious critical consciousness. The deadly traps of demystification\u2014and any form of prophetic criticism\u2014are those of reductionism, be it of sociological, psychological, or historical sort (The Cultural Studies Reader<\/em>, ed. During, 213-14).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the very least, one has to say, these critics are dealing with fundamental questions that cannot be ignored. And that\u2019s all the more reason to get Frye and his thinking into this conversation.<\/p>\n

This post is rather long in wind, and the wind is composed of a lot of links and a lot of quotes, but they\u2019re needed to make the point. I second Joe\u2019s support for Russell\u2019s approach of \u2018practicing one\u2019s own kind of cultural studies,\u2019 and I think it would be a great idea (for Joe, and others) to teach and write more on Frye\u2019s social and cultural analyses. I\u2019m saying this is not so far beyond the pale as one might at first think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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