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piccoline's review
3.0
Seems a bit of a mixed bag, but some good interesting essays in here.
Reading/skimming it alongside "Framing Theory's Empire" was nice, provided some balance.
In the end, where are we? Well, good "Theory" writing we like. Shoddy poseur argument-from-authority and fallacious-(pseudo)-scientific-analogy... not so much.
It actually seems like things have probably turned a corner anyway. Aren't most university literature courses not theoretical enough rather than too theoretical? Anyway, it's too bad that it seems like for a good chunk of years there were lots of folks getting turned off by the orthodoxy of Theory. (Which, properly understood, should have been undermining its own orthodoxy anyway.) (Should that be "heterodoxing its own orthodoxy anyway"?)
Reading/skimming it alongside "Framing Theory's Empire" was nice, provided some balance.
In the end, where are we? Well, good "Theory" writing we like. Shoddy poseur argument-from-authority and fallacious-(pseudo)-scientific-analogy... not so much.
It actually seems like things have probably turned a corner anyway. Aren't most university literature courses not theoretical enough rather than too theoretical? Anyway, it's too bad that it seems like for a good chunk of years there were lots of folks getting turned off by the orthodoxy of Theory. (Which, properly understood, should have been undermining its own orthodoxy anyway.) (Should that be "heterodoxing its own orthodoxy anyway"?)
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