Doing What Comes Naturally

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Doing What Comes Naturally (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Something has happened in the quiet world of literary criticism. The signs are everywhere. A string of satiric novels by David Lodge and others have made the zany new vocabularies and conference goings—on of literary theorists into successful middle-brow entertainment. The rise of a new criticism influenced by feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, structuralist, and post- structuralist theories has also converged at a number of points with the interests of the mass-circulation press. Under headings such as “the battle over the canon,” newspaper articles around the country have...

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