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A literary insurgency

By Wen Stephenson
July 31, 2005

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In 1994, a small but hearty band of disgruntled literature professors, fed up with the high-theory, canon-busting shenanigans of the Modern Language Association, decided to form a break-away group dedicated to such old-fashioned notions as authors, poems, novels, and the Western tradition. (Full article: 338 words)

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