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Date Added: June 28, 2008 03:08:04 PM

If the critic isn't dead, his postmodern cousin is on life support. Certainly, a book titled The Death of the Critic is meant to turn heads, as is the book's already controversial thesis: that in order for the critic to complete his responsibilities to society, he must evaluate a work on a universal scale of good or bad. Both the title and the argument have produced their fair share of ...

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