[Milton-L] "Making Milton Matter"???? was Smokey Mountain...

[Jameela Lares]

Quoting Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>:

> I don't understand this concern to "make" Milton matter -- in fact it
> seems hardly coherent to me.

Our views on this issue probably depend on where we are standing and what we
believe to be the mechanism of cultural continuity.  I stress that Milton is
both really, really good and not outdated because I hope to have 2-3 more
decades in academe.  I know that intellectual market shares can be diminished,
and I want to keep teaching Milton and see upcoming students get jobs teaching
him.

Life is always interrupting culture, but now there are even more cultural
interruptions, if one counts all the various media enjoyed by the younger
generations.  To assume that there will always be readers as a matter of course
sounds problematic to me.  The ball may be kept rolling because some of us are
pushing it.

Jameela
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