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Wayne Deakin, "Modern Language, Philosophy and Criticism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

New Books in Literary Studies

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The Politics of Reading

I love the emphasis you're putting on pleasure as enjoy play as as fundamental to literature. The second line in your book that I was interested in discussing is the politics of reading. How do you think about this relationship between politics and literary criticism? You talk about the avowed political indifference of F.R. Levis, and the avowing political reading of a post colonial critic like Chinaway a Chebe.

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