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[Dave Monroe]

Have it, read it, get it, read it.

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

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