“I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U. S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.”

New Preface to Literary Theory: An Introduction, Anniversary Edition, (2008)
2000s

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