Cultural Anxiety

29th November 2007 with 4 Comments

At Prospect, Richard Jenkyns discusses what he calls canon anxiety. In a lengthy but never less than interesting essay, Do We Need A Literary Canon? he argues that our sense of belonging, our shared references, must evolve more organically.
Consider the most striking literary canonisation of our times. Jane Austen has always been esteemed, and [...]

Filed under art, literature, quotations
Related Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,



About Writing:

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Save a Blogger from Begging: Buy Stuff:

chinese jacket

Signed first editions
at special prices.


RSS Feeds

About Subscriptions and Feeds

Subscribe to posts

Subscribe to comments

2011 feed subscribers

My Website

Visit my website for news of readings and appearances, reviews of and extracts from my novels, interviews, quotations on writing, revolution, lies, time and dance, art, serial killers, and humour. Read short stories, view author images and much more.

Submit your news

Please continue to let me know about literary-related news. I can't promise to publish everything, but if it grabs my interest . . .

Text Size

If you find the text of this blog too small or too large for easy reading, you can alter the size of the font in your browser controls. Alternatively, press the CTRL key and roll the mouse wheel forward or back.