Word: crit
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Parody is a sure sign of continued relevance of postmodernism. Cathleen Schine's Rameau's Niece is a thinly-veiled attack on the currently fashionable lit-crit deconstructionist crowd. (The novel shockingly does not address the hottest topic in literary studies today, transvestitism. There is only one brief reference to "The Importance of Cross-Dressing in the Symbolism of the Eleventh Century Promissory Note" and nary a fetish in sight...
...Margaret deserve each other. She is perilously forgetful, almost amnesiac, it's difficult to see her successfully completing an undergraduate thesis, far less a dissertation and a subsequent book. The book which has brought her such acclaim, "The Anatomy of Madame de Montigny," has been embraced by the lit-crit crowd as a "a precursor of post-modern bricolage" which establishes her on the literary circuit...
...think there is some truth to that. When I think about the law school here where people seem to take sides--either your a "Crit," a member of the critical legal studies, or you're in law of economics. I can't imagine myself being a member of a club like that...
...package of Henry Hansman, Robert H. Mnookin '64, Joseph Singer, and Joel H. H. Weiler, consisted of a conservative, a crit and two moderates, students...