August 4, 2006
Writers Who Price Themselves Out of the Canon
Arguments about the shape and nature of the literary canon — at least the interesting, thoughtful, impassioned arguments of a decade ago — seem to have quieted down somewhat of late. Though we've by no means crossed the Jordan into some kind of post-canon promised land, certain premises of the 1990s canon wars are now more or less taken for granted by both sides: for instance, that canons are always to some extent political, and in need of constant surveillance. With so
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