On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Please don't! I try and avoid reading about
lit crit (I completely
avoid reading actual lit crit), far too many long words used purely to
sound clever.
Not to call Thomas out particularly here, but this attitude is much of
the problem - WP:NOR reads like it was written by a bunch of people
who were really hostile to anything to happen in literary criticism
since World War II, and who thought it best to just ignore it all.
I suspect that, in fact, it was.
What? WP:NOR barely mentions lit crit or anything related to it. It's
a general policy that applies to literature as much as it does to
science or history. I think you may be a little paranoid...