Beloved Beloved
Stephen Metcalf has an interesting piece up at Slate about the merits of Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
As an aside, it would be an interesting exercise to address book awards in our reading list. For instance, taking a set of winners of a particular award (National Book Award say or the Booker) as a case study for a term. Probably logistically impossible due to length, but an intriguing prospect. Thoughts?
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Funny enough, my undergraduate honors thesis was on literary award winners. I think I read the five most recent years’ winners of the NBA, NBCC and Pulitzer (maybe one more?) and wrote about the texts as well as the sort of “characters” of the prizes themselves. All this to say, I would be very interested in having a discussion about award cultures again.
Katie
February 7, 2011 at 4:10 am
Award culture is something I’ve payed little attention to despite the fact that so many of the authors in my diss are NBA or Pulitzer winners. Something that I should rectify.
Nick
February 8, 2011 at 3:23 am