Date: 2014-06-20 01:06 am (UTC)
Yes, this. I also don't see what's so difficult about looking at a particular work as a product of its time, while acknowledging that modern people think, act, and behave differently. It seems to me that Greydon is advocating bit of a New Critical approach, and I'm more of a historicist, to be honest. I also don't see why an entire canon needs to be built on works that conform to modern political and aesthetic sensibilities, either; that kind of smacks of Zhdanovism.

I can read The Merchant of Venice and still hate antisemitism.
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