430 In Shakespeare's Shadow (with Michael Blanding)
The History of Literature
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McCarthy
I was just as fascinated with looking at how McCarthy has been received in his theories and kind of more broadly on how knowledge gets created and changed. And, you know what's really fascinating to me is that McCarthy hasn't been completely disregarded by academia. He's been really celebrated sometimes when he comes out with a particular article that's published in a journal or he wrote a book about a manuscript that was in the North Family Library are a source for Shakespeare. I think there's some you know feeling like this outsider is sort of you know impinging on their turf and who is he to come and he doesn't have a PhD from Columbia who's he to tell them?
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