In 1950, 11-year-old Maria Goretti was sainted for defending her virginity, while her
canonizer Pope Pius XII lauded her for her chastity.
He was also an erudite antiquarian, a wonderful companion for, say, visiting old churches: as a student, he himself had been shown round most of the City of london churches by Sir John Betjeman, poet laureate and
canonizer of a certain traditional vision of English life, whom he revered.
This is, though, in keeping with loppolo's assertion that the |only
canonizer and constituter of Shakespeare's texts .
Given these perplexities--the stalemate between
canonizers and devil's advocates--Starting Point, a collection of Miyazaki's writings first published in 1997 but appearing in English for the first time, could not be timelier (a second volume, Turning Point: 1997-2008, was published in 2008, but has not yet been translated).
The
canonizers of the Life faced the difficulty of accounting for Cellini's significance both within and without the model of artisanship--as the mastery of "situations," as a wider way of life, and as printed narrative--emerging from the craft movement.
The transcript--which flows from one example to the other, brought to an end with unfortunately chipped summaries--comes at its best when Kermode explains the alterations of canon by psychoanalyzing the great
canonizers, highlighting sexual archetypal patterns in their attitudes to canon: Arnold's plaisir of passages displaying "pathos" and "ever-increasing, irremediable pain," and Eliot's take on texts of "education, ruin, damnation, and the pains of purgatory.
