Re: Tho (was: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences))

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David Peterson wrote:

> In a message dated 4/16/01 9:08:21 AM, tb0pwd1@CORN.CSO.NIU.EDU writes:
>
> << Have you read any academic papers written in the last ten years?  That
> prohibition is long dead. >>
>
> Not in my classes.
Hmm.  In the liberal arts it's gone, gone, goneski.  In fact, we encourage
people to use I now, and I run into it in everything written after, say,
1985 or so.

Sometimes, I even run into little paragraphs describing the author's life
history, sexual habits, and pet rat.  I think that sort of confesionalism
is swinging a bit far the other way, but then it's an artifact of
deconstruction which I, being a New Critic, rather dislike.

--Pat


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