“Interacting with literature is easy.”
Foreword, p. xiii
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (2001)
Context: One of the historical vulnerabilities of literature, as a subject for study, is that it has never seemed difficult enough. This may come as news to the buckled figure of the book reviewer, but it's true. Hence the various attempts to elevate it, complicate it, systematize it. Interacting with literature is easy.
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