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Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants
Yes but there is a difference between outlining terrible events and incorporating them into a encompassing literary theory- it's the difference between "Here is a rape" and "WE ARE ALL RAPISTS".
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Maybe we are all rapists. Our desire to invade and colonise foreign lands is part of our desire to penetrate that which does not belong to us. Illegal downloading and piracy is our inherent need to steal pleasure that has been forbidden to us. In some sense, aren't we all raping something?*
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This is all irrelevant if you are a new critic *titter titter*
Man I hate new criticism. It is especially great because I only encounter literary theory as it crossects with historical analysis of sources so we get new critic historians. Most self-defeating field ever.
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I'd like to see a New Critic actually try and analyse
On the Road though because there's two versions. The published one and the scroll version, the latter of which doesn't use the pseudonyms but the real names, including Kerouac's own, so ignoring what the author says means practically disregarding the entire text itself.
*Just to be clear, I am not being serious.