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...Like any specialized field of study, literary theory has its own specialized language. Because there are no hard-and-fast rules for what is right and what is wrong, this language is undeniably subject to 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...
Like any specialized field of study, literary theory has its own specialized language. Because there are no hard-and-fast rules for what is right and what is wrong, this language is undeniably subject to 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...
...sign of a hero is if you feel enhanced simply when talking about him--recounting his feats, recalling a time when your own little life was touched by his. Last week people who know baseball were lit up talking about "the great DiMaggio," as Hemingway's old man called him; his death bequeathed that final gift. I chatted with Roger Angell, the baseball writer, and remarked upon that well-known yet unbelievable statistic: 361 lifetime home runs, 369 lifetime strikeouts. Angell made the point finer when he noted that in 1941, in 541 at bats, DiMaggio struck out only...
...still lives are unequivocally the most inventive and mysterious photographs of the exhibition. He retreats from the streets to the kitchen. But his foodstuffs are neither palatable nor tantalizing. Distorted in scale, lit by mysterious sources and seeming almost alive, these photographs disturb as much as they entice. There are no rites of passage into this world of objects. These depart from his earlier, formalist, abstractions; they are abstraction vivified...
...still lives are unequivocally the most inventive and mysterious photographs of the exhibition. He retreats from the streets to the kitchen. But his foodstuffs are neither palatable nor tantalizing. Distorted in scale, lit by mysterious sources and seeming almost alive, these photographs disturb as much as they entice. There are no rites of passage into this world of objects. These depart from his earlier, formalist, abstractions: they are abstraction vivified...