book-review
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Defending The Western Canon, vol. II (Aesthetic value & Kafka)
As a staunch defender of the Western Canon as it has been characterised by the likes of Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Harold Bloom, George Steiner, Frank Kermode, among many other of our classic, canon-centric critics, I find—as I have done before, see vol. I—that it is necessary to illuminate the notion of “aesthetic merit” as… Continue reading
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Where to start with Henry James
Henry James, of whom I presently, and with possibly the greatest literary joy of my life, have read anything and everything there is to read, is by far one of the best, most refined, most scandalously clever authors I have had the pleasure of reading. It is no secret by now, I am well aware,… Continue reading
The Western Canon 