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Sep. 14, 2018
Audacity and distraction from two very young critics
Though there is abundant talent floating about in fiction, poetry and memoir, few realize how true this also is of literary criticism.
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
Though there is abundant talent floating about in fiction, poetry and memoir, few realize how true this also is of literary criticism. It may the latter is a form merely brushed past in most serious readers' reading, giving rise to the notion that the literary critic slogs on at the peripheries of literature, shouting comments in from time to time, but not building any kind of ouvre of her own as an independent practitioner of craft. Even those who see book essays as ...
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