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| a6bf587 | Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men. | literary-criticism literary-theory narrative nineteenth-century novels plot postmodernism reading semiotics victorians | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 2fdfc56 | The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination. | literary-theory literature | Charles Simic |