2008/12/17 Phil Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com:
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
And this is one of the reasons why wikipedia policy is what it is. This fight has been done by others and they have done it better ( eg http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html ). Wikipedia policy is a pragmatic approach to the situation.