You know what kids need these days? Discipline. And heroes. And I am going to try to give them some of both.
10.02.2010
Lately I often find myself saying “I cut Lady Mary Wroth from my syllabus because the poems are terrible.”
09.25.2010
A student and a reader recently asked me: why is essentialism bad? Uhg, I thought, how do you answer that? But it is a fair and reasonable and nagging question, and I will give it a try.
07.12.2010
In a talk at Stanford that I listened to here, Gayatri Spivak warned that literature departments were turning into opera.
03.20.2010
Arcadians, I have a (maybe tedious) request for help with basic research.
03.07.2010
So the funny thing about Shakespeare, you will have noticed, is that there are a lot of editions of his plays. A lot. A LOT.
11.21.2009
David Pogue, who miraculously manages to remain both an enthusiast for all things technological while, at the same time, starting a small insurrection against cell phone companies, has now convinced me not to worry about which edition of Shakespeare my students use.
09.20.2009
Who says close reading is only for English professors? How improbable is it that I would write an update to my slog about “Total Eclipse of the Heart”? Apparently, not very improbable at all. Criticism, it seems, can be interesting and useful and not boring. My friend VW stopped reading Greek long enough to send me “Total Eclipse Of the Heart” made into a flow chart.
09.11.2009
Raymond Chandler is making me depressed this afternoon. Not because Chandler has a knack for hitting a nerve (“On the way out I had another look at the face in the mirror. I looked as if I had made up my mind to drive off a cliff”). I’m depressed because I am currently rereading The Little Sister in The Library of America edition.
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Christopher Warley
Christopher Warley teaches Renaissance literature and Critical Theory at the University of Toronto.
Publications
Reading Class Through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton
Cambridge University Press | 2014
Perdita's Flowers
The Spenser Review | 2013
Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England
Cambridge University Press | 2005/2009
Christopher Warley is reading
Aisthesis
by Jacques Rancière | 07.03.2014
Minesis
by Erich Auerbach | 11.03.2013