Yahoo News Video Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks GOP senators backing Jackson's SCOTUS nomination Tue, April 5, 2022, 9:25 AM Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has launched an attack against three GOP senators who support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Greene accused them of being “pro-pedophile.”

 Well, as far as Susan Collins is concerned, this is news to me, Marjorie.  Now, if you had said Cruz or Hawley I might not have been surprised and skeptical.

See how Andy Hines relates to Jerry W. Ward, Jr. I think you can get Ward if you Search here.

 

 

Andy Hines quoting the 1984 FLAWED TEXTS AND VERBAL ICONS--AN OUTSIDER QUOTES AN OKIE

 

Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University

A Hines - 2022

… As Hershel Parker put it in commenting on the New Criticism’s tendency toward
unity, the New Critics “define their role as bringing order out of a chaos which they
insist is only apparent, not real. The order must be there, awaiting the sufficiently …

Hines adds: .

Sunday, December 18, 2011

 

How Critics in Fields Other than American Literature Have Applied FLAWED TEXTS AND VERBAL ICONS

            In 2007 while inching along a friend’s bookshelves in Manhattan I realized that my Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons had not, after all, been totally destroyed and forgotten. The general trashing was still vivid in my memory. Most of the reviewers quite rabidly tried to kill it--either to protect the New Criticism (at that late date) or to defend the not-yet discredited Greg-Bowers editorial theory and practice. In the Sewanee Review the critic (Gary Davenport) pretty much said if I were right Western Civilization would crumble, since it is built on belief in the Word. I was going straight to Hell. Before and after 1984 several of my articles were suppressed after being accepted although all of them got into print eventually (one after 20 years, in which editor after editor cringed in fear of Fredson Bowers). I have bought an IRIS scanner and hope to post at least one suppressed article on this blog.
            After 1985 I had to make a new career as a biographer—not the worst of fates, it began to seem. Remembering the comments I had seen in my friend’s books, in mid-July 2008 I glanced at Amazon's new list of anyone's books that cite references by relevance or date, in my case mainly books where the authors cite an edition of Melville I have edited, that sort of casual thing. You could, at least for some months longer, see from the listings on Amazon if anything of substance had been said about the book. I ended up spending several hours on the Amazon list for Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons, then I went down Google Books listings for it. I was astounded at what has been said in the years after the reviews were all in. Now, a quarter century later, the reputation of Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons is high, except with people who had committed themselves to praise of one seriously flawed text or another, and their loyal students.
            What's most interesting is that an astonishing range of scholars--editors of the Bible! Classicists! Medievalists! Shakespearians! Musicologists! "Conservationists"! Students of the Modern British Novel—have earnestly applied Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons to problems they were grappling with. And in 2010 my 1981 ground-breaking preview of FT&VI, “The ‘New Scholarship’: Textual Evidence and its Implications for Criticism, Literary Theory, and Aesthetics,” was reprinted as the lead article in Ecdotica 6, Anglo-American Scholarly Editing, 1980-2005. I prepared this list in the hope that Northwestern would use it in an advertisement, a “Quarterly Report”—FT&VI, a quarter century later. That did not happen, but never mind--I’m glad to have lived long enough to see the book being used! And I am particularly moved and honored by what Jerry W. Ward, Jr., said about it in the 2008 The Katrina Papers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simple white buns with dried cranberries

 

Andy Hines quoting the 1984 FLAWED TEXTS AND VERBAL ICONS--AN OUTSIDER QUOTES AN OKIE

 

Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University

A Hines - 2022

… As Hershel Parker put it in commenting on the New Criticism’s tendency toward
unity, the New Critics “define their role as bringing order out of a chaos which they
insist is only apparent, not real. The order must be there, awaiting the sufficiently …

Hines adds: .

The problem as I recall it is that Jerry was afraid of Brodhead and Delbanco and their cohorts and undercut this extended gloss with one word, If.

"If Parker is right . . . ." Jerry of course knew I was right. After all at a cocktail party in LA at a convention he had accepted the book based on my conversation with him.

Hayford did not understand. In 1984 he recommended Don Cook as someone to write a blurb. I said no, I was thinking of Fred Crews or Stanley Fish. He said (without reading it) but it's textual and Don does textual. Well, I said no, that is not my kind of textual, and I got both Crews and Fish to comment. 

FROM AMAZON:

A timely reconsideration of the history of the profession, Outside Literary Studies investigates how midcentury Black writers built a critical practice tuned to the struggle against racism and colonialism.
 
This striking contribution to Black literary studies examines the practices of Black writers in the mid-twentieth century to revise our understanding of the institutionalization of literary studies in America. Andy Hines uncovers a vibrant history of interpretive resistance to university-based New Criticism by Black writers of the American left. These include well-known figures such as Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry as well as still underappreciated writers like Melvin B. Tolson and Doxey Wilkerson. In their critical practice, these and other Black writers levied their critique from “outside” venues: behind the closed doors of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, in the classroom at a communist labor school under FBI surveillance, and in a host of journals. From these vantages, Black writers not only called out the racist assumptions of the New Criticism, but also defined Black literary and interpretive practices to support communist and other radical world-making efforts in the mid-twentieth century. Hines’s book thus offers a number of urgent contributions to literary studies: it spotlights a canon of Black literary texts that belong to an important era of anti-racist struggle, and it fills in the pre-history of the rise of Black studies and of ongoing Black dissent against the neoliberal university.

Herschel Walker, the Worst Candidate, Trump-Approved April 3, 2022---

 Long ago, a reviewer of FLAWED TEXTS AND VERBAL ICONS started off: "What possessed Herschel Walker to write FLAWED TEXTS AND VERBAL ICONS . . . ." I still wonder what possessed him.

Herschel Walker, the Worst Candidate, Trump-Approved

April 3, 2022

John Douglas Thompson on What Trump Made of America--

 “Listen, I saw the Oscars, and Will Smith walking up onstage and punching somebody,” the actor replied. “I couldn’t believe it. There is no place for that. It does seem to be some sort of thing that’s happening out there in America. As we become more tribalistic, certain behaviors are now normalized. Violence, revenge, vengeance, and there’s just got to be a better way to handle these things. We’re just going to kill each other.”

It is shocking, indeed appalling, when a writer for a VA paper does not know Southern English. This is about 3 firemen whose sons were born about the same time,

 The men thought they should perhaps burn off some nervous energy by setting up a cornhole game during their downtime at the hospital, the same way they pass time at the firehouse. They quickly decided their two wives and one fiancee wouldn't like that.