you're fired! (from the western canon)
By way of Andrew Sullivan, a list of ten books that should be stricken from the Western canon. Not being an English major and having only read, uh, one and a half books on this list -- A Tale of Two Cities (yes, in an eleventh grade English class) and Absalom, Absalom! (currently reading and over which I have fallen head over heels, mind) -- I really am in no position to comment on these selections, other than snickering at the snark.
Lists like this tend to make me feel decidedly undereducated when it comes to literature proper -- I skim through them and realise just how much I have yet to read -- so I have two questions for you, flist: (1) what works would you strike from the canon, and (2) what canonical works would you recommend?
Signing off, V.M. Bell
Lists like this tend to make me feel decidedly undereducated when it comes to literature proper -- I skim through them and realise just how much I have yet to read -- so I have two questions for you, flist: (1) what works would you strike from the canon, and (2) what canonical works would you recommend?
Signing off, V.M. Bell