The second degree.
| Publisher | Review of Contemporary Fiction |
| Publication | The Review of Contemporary Fiction |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0276-0045 |
| Issues per Year | 3 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Published | 2003-06-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Silas Flannery |
| Author | n/a | Rachel Perkins |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Edgar Allan Poe |
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No doubt the moment we turn a source into a subject (for an article, for a conversation) there is nothing left but to give it predicates; in the case of Flannery, however, such predication unfailingly takes the most facile and trivial form, that of the epithet. The work of Flannery seems to me bound up with this literary problem, not as the straightforward expression of a particular moment (the transition from imitator to plagiarist) but as the powerful germ of a disturbance of civilization, Flannery at once bringing together its element and sketching out its solution; an ambiguity...
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