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Is E. E. Cummings a serious writer?
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It is inevitable that some readers will take from Evelyn Barish’s biography of the life and misdeeds of Paul de Man the notion that literary theory is a crock. The title…
America’s self-help gospel
The limits of autobiography
A history of ballooning
A theory of glamour
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