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The pleasures of reading
in an ideological age
By Alter, Robert
- ISBN
- 978-0-67162-783-6
- Publisher
- New York : Simon and Schuster, c1989.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1989
Students read more of Lacan, Eagleton, Foucault, and Derrida, Alter protests, than they do of George Eliot or Stendhal. But despite his adversarial stance toward "fashionable absurdities,'' Alter wastes little time in polemics. Instead, he explains and applies those resources ready at hand to anal...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
