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Theology, However Implausible Many Of Its Truth Claims, Is One Of The Most Ambitious Theoretical Arenas Left In An Increasingly Specialized World

For The Liberal State To Accommodate A Diversity Of Beliefs While Having Few Positive Convictions Is One Of The More Admirable Achievements Of Civilization.

What Was Needed Was A Literary Theory Which, While Preserving The Formalist Bent Of New Criticism, Its Dogged Attention To Literature As Aesthetic Object Rather Than Social Practice, Would Make Something A Good Deal More Systematic And 'scientific' Out Of All This. The Answer Arrived In 1957, In The Shape Of The Canadian Northrop Fryes Mighty 'totalization' Of All Literary Genres, Anatomy Of Criticism .

There Seems To Be Something In Humanity Which Will Not Bow Meekly To The Insolence Of Power.

If The Masses Are Not Thrown A Few Novels , They May React By Throwing Up A Few Barricades.