All I can bear to say about Mark Bauerlein
How your mouth feels after eating too much sugary junk?
When I read this just a few weeks after MB admonished someone to "do some homework before passing opinions on matters out of [his] depth,� my soul suffers from a similar overload, one of irony, that almost leaves me nauseous.
Apparently, we can now define "homework" as "skimming a 3-year-old conference program."
And that is all I can bear to say. Except maybe for a quick thanks to Trish Jenkins for being the first commenter.
Comments
Yawn. He can't even bother to get a version of this year's program; he has to "work" with from the same one he misread before.
Posted by: cbd | January 28, 2008 11:16 PM
'Gads. That was one of those moments I was embarrassed to be associated with The Valve. (Or to have be so fond of Bauerlein's Literary Criticism: An Autopsy.) (Although that book still resonates for me, inasmuch as it taught me how to be skeptical about theory anthologies and their organizing principles.)
Still, that wasn't the blog's finest moment.
Posted by: SEK | January 28, 2008 11:22 PM
I take it this means I can no longer cite Bauerlein as an exemplar of methodological rigor.
Posted by: Derek | January 29, 2008 9:19 AM