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French cultural studies : criticism at the crossroads
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In fact, the very last thing I would ever do to either Hanson or Bersani is to make them try to write like Barthes because they know they can't as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Substance # 97, Vol. 31, no. 1, 2002 the “tortuous,” “exquisite” prose Hanson loves to read, it also fails to account for the decidedly non-decadent prose he now loves to—make that has to— write: boring if not nauseating prose I’d call style-free insofar as it represents not so much the critic’s unconscious as his repression of the erotic body in writing, his unfortunate unwillingness to play with language and form anymore. So I say, to hell with it. One final possible reason has nothing to do with either seriousness or sensuality. Most critics don’t try to write like Barthes because they know they can’t. Many don’t even though—like Hanson—they can, because they know they’ll be discredited as mere stylists; or worse yet, as charlatans. Which, of course, is the very last thing I’d ever do to either Hanson or Bersani. Kevin Kopelson University of Iowaread more
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