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Rick Steven D's avatar

Great job Liza! Not sure if you read Camille Paglia but she has been dismissive of literary theory for over thirty years now, in long essays like Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders and the cancelled preface to her great book Sexual Persona. She even makes the brilliant point that a great deal is lost in translation- that deconstruction and post structurturalism make sense for the French language and even for French culture but not at all in the United States, although not sure I have that argument clear in my head right now- Paglia can be a mind f--k!

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Liza Libes's avatar

I religiously cited Paglia in my undergrad thesis. She is fantastic and probably one of the reasons that I got booted out of my program. They don’t like her at Columbia.

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Castorp's avatar

I bet they don’t. If anything, that’s a badge of honor.

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Rick Steven D's avatar

Thanks Liza!

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