The fact is, I reflected, that for all of this strange concern that technology might pollute scholarship, the reality is that the damage has already been done by multiculturalism. Scholarship has been politicized but true art remains defiantly unadulterated. So as fellow Phi Beta Kappans clubbed an inanimate box to death with their hysterical fears, I became optimistic. The battle has shifted. No one is studying the canon, because so few care to, the mob has moved to attack a new demon.
Aesthetics are impervious to politicization by their very nature.
Deconstructing Shakespeare is impossible, as Bloom observed, because he was a better psychologist than Freud. Bloom further suggested that Shakespeare is the canon. The truth is not complicated. It is unavoidable. Eileen M. Ciesla edits the journal Femme Soul .