A big thank you epi. I did find what you wrote perceptive. Like epi, I have read a great deal of post-structural theory and much of it is inpenetrable (to me, at least) or downright silly, but there is much I have found illuminating and useful. I'm glad I read what I have of it.
As I said earlier, it is damnably easy to poke fun at any literary theory if you want to badly enough. I'm not sure, however, if such mockery is anything more than preaching to the choir.
In my two years on here, I have often thought how strange some die-hard metrical fans are: they want people to love metrical poetry, yet they act as if someone were trying to bludgeon them if they are even remotely exposed to any kind of poetry that doesn't follow in the metrical tradition. And here we have a parallel case with literary theory. A case of "do as I say, not as I do"? Perhaps.
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