When I tell people that I live in my hometown of Rochester, N.Y., their most common response is, “Why?” Rochester is the fifty-first largest metro region in the United States, a tad smaller than Buffalo and a tad bigger than …
You go shopping and find yourself in a long line, waiting for help from a competent but overwhelmed cashier. On your right you see four self-service stations with no lines. A cashier stands ready to train you on how to …
Frank Lentricchia has chosen a difficult problem for his new book, Criticism and Social Change. His ambition is to devise a Marxism responsive to the challenges posed for its theoretical foundations by the poststructuralist deconstructionist critical theories that have been …
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