Peter Shaw, in The Seiufli~eeReviezu (Spring 1994), University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. 37383.
It is more than passing strange: The academics who so strenuously object to the "canon" of the great works of Western literature never get down to cases. "Canon-busters" such as Barbara Foley, author of Radical Representations (1993) and Paul Lauter, author of Canons and Context (19911, do not challenge the standing of Hamlet, say, or any other particular revered work. In- stead,...