the question is about the nature of what we take as our object as literary
scholars, and why we choose to do so.
>> I think the object of our study, as literary scholars, is that cultural
>> belief, and the specific texts, both literary and non-literary, that go
into
>> it or flow from it.
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>I'm not sure what Clark is suggesting here, but I'm fairly sure that cultural
>beliefs do not "flow" -- except metaphorically. Cultural beliefs are always
>embodied, either in brains or in texts or in the plastic arts, and never flow
>free.
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>Yours, Bill Godshalk
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