Untitled Review of Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the Wars, by Tyrus Miller [criticism]. (original) (raw)
Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 48 (2000): 281-85
Boox RBwnws 281 disingenuous and defensive. Though he describes Foucault's work as brilliant at one point (170, n. 89), he merely mentions it in passing; Baudrillard's work is dismissed in a note simply as "caricature" (155 n. 38); Said's critique of the appropriative effect of nineteenth-century Egyptology is described as "daft" (I41 n. 10); and Adorno is invoked simply a "colour of the month" (23). Had Sparshott engaged this critical tradition more seriously, his analysis of empire as an information system might have been situated more clearly in contemporary debates on that topic, and, more importantly, the potential force of his connections among aesthetics, axiology, and social practice may have emerged more clearly for a wider range of readers.
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