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> Brian Siano wrote:
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>> Empowering? Frankly, literary theory strikes me as one of the most
>> _crippling_ things ever devised. I've rarely seen anyone with a
>> background in literary theory acquire power, or even demonstrate an
>> ability to deliver power to those who need it most. Instead, those who
>> excel at literary theory seem to succeed only in academia, and maybe the
>> media once in a while. Those who develop skills in science, math,
>> medicine, law, or engineering really _are_ empowered.
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> You, of course, have just written a paragraph of literary theory. Not
> very good literary theory, rather unconscious literary theory, rather
> arrogant literary theory in its apriori dismissal of all literary theory
> which disagrees with your theory, but literary theory nonetheless, and
> to be judged as to its adequacy as a theory of literature.
Let me guess. You are able to develop material like the above using literary theory.
How empowering.