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Article: Recovering American Literature.
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- The Public Interest
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 The National Affairs, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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IT IS DIFFICULT for the general reader today to grasp what has happened to academic literary criticism. Picking up at random the kind of book typically published by university presses these days, the non-specialist is likely to be put off by both its style and its content. The prose may seem dense and strained, the arguments crudely ideological and politicized, and the subject matter remote from anything that has traditionally been regarded as the domain of literary analysis. Faced with such evidence, the general reader will not be encouraged to delve further into contemporary criticism, Anyone outside the academy will have a hard time believing how dominant and pervasive ...
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