December 1, 2000
The Quest for a Latino Literary Tradition
In "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time," Matthew Arnold suggested that the objective of criticism was the pursuit of truth, not only in literature, but also in politics and social theory. Arnold didn't have anthologies in mind as a variety of criticism. It was the intellectual analysis of culture and anarchy and literature and dogma that he was thinking about when he stated that criticism ought to be the disinterested exploration of the best that is thought and known in the world.
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