In Renaissance rhetoric, failures to draw precise distinctions would entail
derision. In most contemporary professions, they might entail professional
penalty such as one's losing one's license. In Renaissance literary
studies, such failures unfortunately remain the name of the game, along
with obscure gestures to "stock" traditions, "general dictums," and
"cultural discourses." It is hugh time we beginto be intellectually
responsible and put an end to this.
Shirley Sharon-Zisser
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