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.
-Phil