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Michael H. Parkinson reappears on the No. 56 streetcar
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Odyssey and oracle: reassessing the iconic German author’s work
A writer’s quest
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…
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