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That's the title of my very first M.Phil English assignment. Got any input I could brainstorm about? Current reading recs include Western Canon by Harold Bloom and Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton. Just looking for thoughts to munch on.
It's a large topic; I'll very quickly recommend some essay-length treatments that might speak to whatever various sub-aspects of the topic you want to focus on; I assume most of these can readily found online, licitly or illicitly; I'm almost a decade out of grad school, and it's been well over a decade since my coursework, so if you want more contemporary references, you'll have to ask someone else.
Eagleton's book, especially "The Rise of English" chapter, is definitely a good first stop (though take his appalling glibness and snideness with several grains of salt and at the very least read Matthew Arnold's "Function of Criticism at the Present Time" for yourself).
For French Theory, try Barthes's "Death of the Author" and Deleuze and Guattari's "What Is a Minor Literature?" for the demotion of the integral, self-sufficient work upon which the canon is modeled and the elevation instead of the heterogenous and radically socio-political text, which can, implicitly, be any text (though Barthes's and D/G's examples are canonical).
For the sociology of literature, there's Bourdieu's "Field of Cultural Production," with its argument that the disinterested aesthetic posture on which the canon is based is a willfully exercised form of social power (skip the diagrams).
For Anglo-American identity politics and its discontents, see Elaine Showalter's introduction to A Literature of Her Own vs. Toril Moi's introduction to Sexual/Textual Ethics for a debate over whether a female counter-canon and its attendant criticism should be humanist or anti-humanist; Toni Morrison's "Unspeakable Things Unspoken" and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's "Axiomatic" from Epistemology of the Closet for how to criticize the old canon itself from minoritized positions, African-American and queer respectively; and Barbara Christian's "The Race for Theory" for a defense of the political necessity of open-ended (i.e., not theoretical) study and reading of contemporary non-white-male non-canonical literature, in this case late-20th-century black women's fiction.
For the contemporary digital humanities mentality, try Franco Moretti's "Conjectures on World Literature," with its techno-polemic against close reading of canonical literature and recommendation of distant reading of all literature instead.
For early versions of the pro and con stances re: popular culture as more vitally democratic object of study, there's Adorno and Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry" (con) and Fiedler's "Both Ends Against the Middle" (pro).
Irving Howe's humanist and old left defense of the canon, "The Value of the Canon," is finally well worth reading.
ok weird question to ask a supernatural blog but: you are very educated in gender studies (at least compared to me lol). I'm taking a sociology class, and the teacher would like for us to bring reading material on any subject we're interested in, and I'm very interested in gender studies. do you have any recommendations? I can't bring in any books, it'd have to be shorter, like an academic paper. maybe from that Sontag person you always mention. uh anyways that's all love your content!
YEAH hold on okay disclaimer i have only taken 4 semesters of undergrad gender studies and i know literally nothing <3 that being said here are a few of my favourite essays/short pieces:
notes on camp (susan sontag)
imitation and gender insubordination (judith butler)
punks, bulldaggers, and welfare queens (cathy cohen)
on liking women (andrea long chu)
how to bring your kids up gay (eve sedgwick)
monster, terrorist, fag (jasbir puar)
verdicts of science, rulings of faith (afsaneh najmabadi)
resisting medicine, re/modeling gender (dean spade)
my words to victor frankenstein above the village of chamonix (susan stryker)
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“Many of the roots of heteronormativity are in white supremacist ideologies which sought (and continue) to use the state and its regulation of sexuality, in particular heterosexual marriage, to designate which individuals were truly ‘fit’ for full rights and privileges of citizenship.”
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