“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, August 26, 2011

New Literary History Essay

I'm about to start writing it:

An Object-Oriented Defense of Poetry

It all came together when I taught Shelley a few weeks ago. More on this soon. But it's kinda neat how easily an apparent materialist such as Shelley, with fascinating Neoplatonist leanings, can be seen to underwrite OOO.



1 comment:

Bill Benzon said...

Well, if OOO is the Best Philosophy Ever, then shouldn't it give the Best Account Ever of ANY poetry Whatsoever?