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How does this forum index our thinking of literature and think through the indexes of comparative and transcultural studies?
(What would Papa have said of that!) But few would now give the old man the heavyweight championship of literature for which he fought so hard, not least because thinking of literature as an elimination bout is no longer our style.
Nevertheless it is worth remembering that these differences of degree do not prevent us from thinking of literature and science as belonging on the same continuum, widely separated as they may be, as exercising similar powers of the imagination and as sparing us in comparable ways the risk of tentative and uncertain action in the real world.
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Works that delve beneath the surface of classical forms to get at classical thinking — works of literature, philosophy, politics — require a recognition, at least, of the conflict between pagan and Christian ideals: strength versus humility, earthly life versus the hereafter, the hero versus the saint.
All of which got me thinking of our world literature tour (or maybe it's just the guilt at our neglect).
At some point, readers and critics stop thinking of the hyphenated literature from an exoticizing perspective, and instead treat the writing on its own terms.
("Lots of reading goes into my pots. My own way of making things comes out of a great deal of thinking about literature").
But why -- unless McArdle was really thinking of this work of literature instead?
For instance, a poststructuralist will tell you that the only way a new way of thinking in literature can arise is if it's stepping on the neck of the previous one.
How do some of the examples in your book Kleist, for instance—fit that model of thinking about literature?
For one enraged online critic, the series was simply "an elaborate headstone for a defunct way of thinking about literature".
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