#sadly i can't say 'fight me' in the actual diss

[anghraine]

I've spent pages of my dissertation explaining my gripes with historicist literary criticism and then it's like "I'm a historicist btw"

(...my brain is very tired)

#historical information can be illuminating for literature and literature can offer useful documents for historians #but history-centric takes on literature that neglect. like. actual textual details? bad. #esp bc such takes usually come from people who aren't historians and aren't trained in it ANYWAY #so it's second-rate history as well as second-rate literary criticism #though real historians sometimes trip into very bad literary criticism in the service of history #even when it's not bad literature's utility to other fields is not the primary source of its worth!! i will fight on this!!! #sadly i can't say 'fight me' in the actual diss #anghraine babbles #anghraine whines #ivory tower blogging #literary theory unfortunately