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"If Writers Want to Influence Universities
They Ought to Keep Out of Them"

Realistically viewed, pragmatically observed, the university is, in truth, about thirty years behind. The excitements and quarrels and polemics that surround the canon issue, for instance, are the product of what the writers were doing and saying in what we have come to call, all-inclusively and prototypically,...

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