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[Mark Kohut]

This seemingly must-read book again. (Anyone have it?)

It is a good review and
one thing so interesting to me, who must be a generation or so older than
the reviewer,
is his personal story of hearing about "literary criticism' for the first
time.  A Whit Stillman
movie! (I presume he was high school age when he saw it). I saw that older
and took it
as a fierce satire of the speaker...anyway...he does go on to evoke
Trilling as
ancestor-touchstone and has lots of subtleties to lay on us.

When I first learned of 'literary critics', I figured they could help
me--us--because they
could understand--by progressive knotting into; by unimaginative "analysis'
of the deep
imagination of genius writers.

Probably can"t shake that.






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