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Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Revenge of the literature nerds as some old guy writes a sequel to his old book attacking literary theorists. One might be led to think that this guy has a point in rejecting all the stylish "readings" until he sums it up thusly:'Membership in the academy or non-membership in the academy isn't really the point', argues Crews. 'The point is, are intellectuals saying things that the public can genuinely learn from? When they're only talking the jargon of their own field, the public is learning nothing. There has to be an effort to take the serious disciplines of knowledge and communicate them to the public in a way which is not debased.' Marxist reading, anyone?
Steven I. Weiss 9:10:00 AM
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