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- Subject: An Examination of Criticism
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.042941.22647@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 04:29:41 GMT
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- A trend in literary criticism has been the increasing application
- of critical techniques not to ``ordinary'' prose, but to other
- samples of literary criticism. Even fourth-order criticism is now
- common. From mathematics comes the possibility of finding a ``fixed
- point'' of the critical function -- a piece of prose identical to
- its own analysis.
- A fixed-point text would not necessarily reference itself
- directly; it might simply describe properties of such a text.
- Any attempt to describe the article would require its complete
- duplication. Expressive parsimony would be essential, since any
- nonessential portions could be omitted from the review.
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- -andru
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