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If literature matters today, it is chiefly because it seems to many conventional critics one of the few remaining places where, in a divided, fragment...more

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Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to par...more

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Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions o...more

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Another anti-theoretical stratagem is to claim that in order to launch some fundamental critique of our culture, we would need to be standing at some ...more

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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read ...more

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Interestingly, this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid, flesh-and-blood existence of real men and women. O...more

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Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced it had long p...more

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In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed dise...more