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Disrupting the canon

Disrupting the canon

Ideas divorced from craft in an ideological age

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Greg Ashman
Dec 30, 2020
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Steeped in negligent naivety, the siren call is to disrupt the literary canon. Are you a thick-rimmed-glasses-wearing bookworm from a comfortable background who has found yourself teaching English? Never mind, you too can pull up the drawbridge behind you and become part of the revolution by condemning classic literature, preferably on Twitter with the …

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