![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, she CAN tell you exactly how you’re going to die (say what? that’s a sucky superpower - she’s like Jess Mastriani or Suze Simon all grown up). Probably why Meena doesn’t mention hating Buffy). She’s tired of seeing anemic guys parade around with stupid sticky-up hair like their favorite movie vampire (ahem) and she hates the damsel-in-distress storyline of most vampire tales (although I’d like to point out here that Buffy was never a damsel in distress. She does NOT believe in vampires, she’s sick of vampires, she hates the idea of vampires. Meena Harper is a struggling dialogue writer for legendary soap opera Insatiable. See? I wasn’t lying! The note from MEG CABOT (on shiny, silverish stationery, natch). And finally, the most important reason (or, oops, I buried the lede): MEG CABOT sent it to me! With a NOTE! How could I say no to her? Who says no to Meg Cabot? Who even WANTS to?.Meg Cabot writes totally awesome YA stuff.It’s the kind of book FYAers would like.It makes fun (obliquely) of Twilight (see above).It’s about vampires, and people who are bored with vampires.and since we’re (almost) all grownups here, i’m making an exception and reviewing Meg Cabot’s new book for grownups, Insatiable, for several reasons: I know FYA here is all about young adult books (hello, it’s in our title), but every now and then, a girl’s gotta make an exception to the rule. Relationship Status: Post-First-Date Excitement Talky Talk: Meg Cabot, Vampire History Ph.D. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His theology was recognized by the Council of Nicea as being the true Gospel of Christ, and as such it has been passed down the centuries. The Incarnation of the Word is Athanasius’ most famous writing, and his most celebrated statement of his case against the Arians. No mere creature could achieve this but only the very Word of God. God became a human to make humans divine the immortal became mortal to raise mortals to immortality. His main disagreement with Arius concerned salvation: we are saved because in Christ God himself became a human being and died a human death. ![]() ![]() Arius denied that Christ was truly and fully God, arguing from the Bible that only the Father was truly God, and the Son was the firstborn of creation.Īthanasius was his arch-enemy – and a deacon in the same church. In the fourth century, during the time of Constantine, the church was rocked by a controversy started by Arius, a deacon of the influential church of Alexandria in Egypt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Doubtless, much of the debate The Western Canon is intended to provoke will rage around the Cultural Literacy-style "ideal canon" Bloom sets forth in an appendix (no Behn, Gaskell, or Alice Walker - a favorite target of Bloom's ire - though it does include poet Rita Dove, Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, and other geographically and culturally far-ranging writers). ![]() ![]() So too is the reading list that emerges from his account of the endless contest between "strong poets" and their even stronger precursors (the agonistic principle of "anxiety of influence" familiar from Bloom's earlier criticism), the strongest being Shakespeare, whom Bloom adores with unqualified Bardolatry. Bloom disclaims any ideology, but his preferred model of literary study - a solitary one - is as unexceptionally conservative as the qualities by which he determines merit. ![]() For Bloom, literary interest is always a question of artistic merit, which rests on the degree of "literary individuality and poetic autonomy" a text achieves. In measures carefully calculated to raise the hackles of would-be canon revisers Bloom (The Book of J, 1990, etc.) assails "the current disease of moral smugness that is destroying literary study in the name of socio-economic justice." He loftily derides the notion that literature either has a social mission or can profitably be discussed in its own social and historical context. One of our biggest critical gun fires a characteristically Olympian broadside into the canon debate, no quarter spared for the politically correct. ![]() |