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Literary Lives
Robert Alter — May 1979
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There once was a time when what passed for critical discourse could be confidently subsumed under two neatly coordinate rubrics, the Man and his Work. Now, over the last decade and more, structuralism with equal effectiveness has displaced the writer from
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