{"id":4109,"date":"2009-10-17T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T23:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2009-10-17T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T23:29:08","slug":"re-big-picture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/17\/re-big-picture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Big Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Responding to Michael Sinding’s post:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are\u00a0many points that one could engage with in Michael Sinding\u2019s post<\/a>; I plan to come back to some of them in relation to Michael Happy\u2019s response<\/a>. For the present, a few random comments: I enjoyed and largely agree with the assessment of \u201cthe brilliant, the wrong, and the batty.\u201d Eve Sedgwick<\/a> is undoubtedly important, but her prose is off-putting: Susan Gubar<\/a> noted in a review of Epistemology of the Closet<\/em> that she turns English into a foreign language with her critical jargon, arcane vocabulary, and elaborate qualifications.\u00a0As for\u00a0Michael Berube\u2019s blog<\/a>, having gone through quite a few posts at random, he seems to have missed his true calling as a political commentator. Though I agree that he is a good writer, as well as something of a satirist. I also see he is a candidate for the MLA presidency.<\/p>\n

Regarding the Cornel West quotation, with its reference to Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s <\/a>Republican affiliation: John Dos Passos<\/a> is another example of an American writer with a problematically complex political identity, beginning as a radical leftist, and moving to support of Barry Goldwater<\/a> and writing for the National Review<\/a><\/em>. The case has been made that underlying the shift of allegiance was a commitment to the individual and to ideas of liberty and democracy; on the other hand, few people seem to read the later works of Dos Passos (and I am not among them, and so cannot comment personally on them). Perhaps there\u2019s somewhat of a parallel with Wordsworth \u2013 in relation to whom T. S. Eliot wrote (with some self-reference?) \u201cwhen a man takes politics and social affairs seriously the difference between revolution and reaction may be by the breadth of a hair, and \u2026 Wordsworth may possibly have been no renegade but a man who thought, so far as he thought at all, for himself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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