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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20060101
Author:Balfour, Ian
"Genres," Jacques Derrida reminds us, ventriloquizing a long tradition "should not be mixed." He noted this in just about the same breath as he acknowledged the virtual necessity of breaking this putative law of genre.
Marc Redfield's idea for the occasion of responding to a new essay by Geoffrey Hartman was originally that of a deviant or defiant homage, not what normally expects of homage and so already more promising that the non-visionary dreariness of sheer praise, however much warranted. My small contribution wavers or oscillates between response and homage, mixing two ...
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