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...looking for things that are a little more quirky," she says. "There aren't necessarily 1,000 copies of the new John Grisham book in the store, but there are hundreds of books you can't find anywhere else...
...looking for things that are a little more quirky," she says. "There aren't necessarily 1,000 copies of the new John Grisham book in the store, but there are hundreds of books you can't find anywhere else...
...abuse, and I have had to sit through my own fair share of lit crit nonsense. However, it is a completely unjustified jump from saying that literary theory is sometimes misused to saying that the field as a whole is without purpose. If Munro were to put down his Grisham and read some challenging literature or some relevant theory he might find that there is far more to literature than simple "pleasure...
Perhaps Munro's reading has never strayed beyond the odd John Grisham novel, in which case his analysis might be justified. However, Grisham is not normally taught in English departments, and with good reason. Literature is one of the oldest means we have of making sense of experience, and it exists not to entertain us, but to help us understand ourselves and the world we inhabit...
...abuse, and I have had to sit through my own fair share of lit crit nonsense. However, it is a completely unjustified jump from saying that literary theory is sometimes misused to saying that the field as a whole is without purpose. If Munro were to put down his Grisham and read some challenging literature or some relevant theory he might find that there is far more to literature than simple "pleasure." DAVID W. EGAN '00 March...