Tag: Laurence Sterne
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“Ever since Gutenberg,” Robert Alter writes, “the conditions of mechanical reproduction made it necessary for the individual artist to swim against a vast floodtide of trash out of all proportion to anything that had existed before in cultural history….” And when the furnace of time has digested the trash-heap of twentieth-century literary criticism, one hopes … Read More