Tag: the canon

  • Oscar Wilde, and the Canon reconsidered

    I finished The Picture of Dorian Gray a few days ago. I was astonished by how much I enjoyed this book.  Astonished because I’ve grown weary of the Canon.   Dusty, stodgy, and arcane feeling books written so long ago. Don’t read this as millennial angst.  Mine isn’t the youth’s lament that traditionally bemoans its elder’s…