> It's like this -- without funding or support, poetry, dance, drama,
painting continue because there is something compelling(and addictive)
about creating art. Without the academic institution of criticism, 99%
of this kind of writing would disappear.
But is that such a good thing? This article I'd just read not fifteen minutes before I read your e-mail suggests that it's not:
The Death of Literary Theory Is it really a good thing? By Stephen Metcalf
http://www.slate.com/id/2130583/