{"id":692,"date":"2021-03-10T11:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T11:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=692"},"modified":"2021-03-23T17:55:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:55:59","slug":"page-breaks-literary-canon-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2021\/03\/10\/page-breaks-literary-canon-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Breaks: Did Harold Bloom or Toni Morrison Win the &#8220;Literary Canon Wars&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wed 10 March 2021, join us for a spirited discussion of how Harold Bloom and Toni Morrison challenged our thinking about what (and how) to read.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-688 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-2019-10-20-at-19.48.38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s often hard to know when an era begins and ends, but the recent deaths of the novelist Toni Morrison (in August) and the literary scholar Harold Bloom [in October] make a case for putting the era of literary canon wars to rest.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Texts: <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"css-1baulvz\">Joe Karaganis<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">David McClure, &#8216;Did Harold Bloom or Toni Morrison Win the Literary Canon Wars?&#8217; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/19\/opinion\/sunday\/harold-bloom-canon.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Stanley Fish, &#8216;Harold Bloom&#8217;s Warning to the World&#8217; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/10\/question-one-should-never-ask-about-work-art\/600337\/\"><em>The Atlantic<\/em><\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>PDF versions are available on our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks-texts\/\">password-protected texts page<\/a> &#8211; email d.butchard@bham.ac.uk for the password.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Note &#8211; this is a change from a previously advertised session (High Score), due to scheduling conflicts. Don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ll be doing High Score in a future week<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Time and Place<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Wed 10 Mar, 1-2pm<\/li>\n<li>Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/95106481660?pwd=QXd6cDRLdDMrbG0zaDhYRUxJQzBVdz09\">Link<\/a>\u00a0(Password: pagebreaks)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Page Breaks events are run by Dorothy Butchard (d.butchard@bham.ac.uk) and Toria Johnson (T.Johnson@bham.ac.uk). Please email us if you have any questions, but you&#8217;re welcome to just turn up &#8211; no need to register in advance!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wed 10 March 2021, join us for a spirited discussion of how Harold Bloom and Toni Morrison challenged our thinking about what (and how) to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,1,3],"tags":[178,177,117],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-21","category-english-lit","category-page-breaks","tag-canon","tag-harold-bloom","tag-toni-morrison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}