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[thebluefrog]

I'm really learning to despise Formalism (or New Criticism, if you prefer). At its heart, I believe it seeks to transform artistic literary works into scientific formulae. It bugs me, it really, truly does, and not simply because I find writing a 6-page paper on a single sonnet rather ludicrous.

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[spoon404]

this post is exactly what killed my appreciation for literature in high school, and why it took so long to rekindle it later in life. while i still do not appreciate poetry to the extent that it deserves, i attribute the systematic disassembly and dissection of an author's creative work to be the root cause. recreational reading has only happened again recently and even now is mainly limited to non-fiction works ("", ftw).

[spoon404]

do'h bad html. manual information, cro-mag style:
book: The Light and the Glory"
url: http://www.amazon.com/Light-Glory-Peter-Marshall/dp/0800750543
opinion: good stuff