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Alter is president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC), a band of resistance fighters against prevailing academic trends, mainly the ones--deconstruction, cultural studies, gender studies--that examine literature for its complicity in racism, colonialism, sexism and homophobia. Alter's group believes that lit-crit obsessions with race, gender and sexuality reduce imaginative writing to the sum of its crimes against humanity, losing sight of the ambiguous and magical ways in which novels, poems and plays really operate. (To make matters worse, a lot of that criticism is written in indigestible nuggets like "reification" and "de-contextualizing...
...reading the professor's lines, making sure that we knew with whom we were to sympathize. Here, too, the influence of the poetry reading is evident; this poem is meant to be read, or more accurately to be acted, in front of an audience that both knows its lit-crit and knows that it reveals a greatness of soul to despise...
...literary text at least as well as a human, 21-year-old undergraduate lit major. When he is being cynical, which is more than half the time, Lentz intends merely to stuff "the most complex and extensive neural simulator ever trained" with prepackaged, fake hermeneutics and suitably foggy lit-crit catchphrases. What he secretly hopes for is consciousness...
...influenced and whose careers she strenuously promoted. But for the real thing, there is a mammoth new book, For Keeps (Dutton; 1,312 pages; $34.95), which collects about a fifth of her movie writing. So far as we know, that's all she wrote -- no fiction, no lit crit, no backward glance at an early life that included jobs as a seamstress, cook and children's companion (Auntie Mame from Mensa!). "I'm frequently asked why I don't write my memoirs," she notes in the introduction to For Keeps. "I think I have...
Dalton was an adherent of Critical Legal Studies, a school of legal thought which is concerned with the effects of culture and society on the law and with its effects on the distribution of wealth and income. Traditional scholars maintain that "crit" does not constitute a legitimate filed of study...