In this post, I examine three reviews and question the assumptions that are brought to bear in order to ascertain whether or not the performance reviewed is considered ‘good’ or not. Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett perform live in Atlantic City Review 1 from Billboard by Joe Lynch This review is of a concert in Atlantic…
Day: December 29, 2016
Criticism and the Literary Canon: Wordsworth vs. Hemans
In an online discussion of the subject of Felicia Hemans’ place in the literary canon, Jonathan Mulrooney comments that ’Hemans was incredibly popular in her day, and she wrote some fine poetry; students need to know about it. But even if we could imagine a world in which the methods of exegisis [sic] that value…
