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the impulse to make light of this annual ritual. True , the verbal
windmills seem ever ready to exact their revenge on the quixotic soul
who enters the lit crit biz . And yes, the proponents of trendy
isms
and
ologies
sound yet more outlandish from year to year-they would
probably fiddle while textbooks burn, if it ever came to that (and
their nihilistic writings could furnish a theoretical defense of the
flames). But for all the flapdoodle , serious matters do get addressed
at the MLA convention, if only in unostentatious corners, and the
talk isn't all academic.
It
concerns jobs and salaries and prospects
for promotion , it concerns the language, it concerns cultural
fashions and literary values-not to mention the education of our
young people, now and in the years ahead. In this world where all
books are "texts" and all speech is "discourse," what's at stake is
the future of American literacy .
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