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Article: Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry.
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- October 1, 1998
- Author:
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edited by Yopie Prins and Maaera Shreiber. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997, 373 pp., $49.95 hardcover, $19.95 paper.
Who reads literary criticism? Other literary critics, presumably. But not with pure delight. Finding out what others have written about one's topic is meant to be an early stage of scholarly research; but for me the task of wading through article after redundant article, many of them obviously destined (in ambition or desperation)just to pad the resume or the tenure file, is instead too often the last gesture of an aborted project. Why write, if one can imagine being read in this dingy spirit only? Why add to the dismal glut?
While ...