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>From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
>"(...) some academics say that postmodern theory is on the way out 
>altogether and that the heady ideas that once changed the way literature is 
>taught and read will soon be as extinct as the dodo (...)."
>http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0127/p11s01-legn.html
>But the article is weak. I bet there are some academics who say that 
>Christianity and Science are mutual exclusive.

I'm not sure how your statement about what "some academics" might say 
supports your contention that the article is weak.  The major point of the 
article is that Postmodern literary theory is falling out of favor in a big 
way in academia.  Can you refute that in a more convincing manner?  As 
evidence (amongst other things) the article points to Eagleton's (not just 
"some academic") change of heart:

<<"But Eagleton has never been a tweedy, pipe-smoking purveyor of the humane 
verities. What makes his new view so startling is that for years, he was one 
of theory's most committed apologists. Indeed, his 1983 book "Literary 
Theory: An Introduction" has long been a standard text in university 
classrooms and will no doubt continue to be, at least until Eagleton's 
recantation of all he once held holy becomes the new orthodoxy.

The idea behind "Literary Theory" was to interrogate and refute what 
Eagleton and others thought of as lazy, received notions of what is true.>>

Ghetta
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