#though real historians sometimes trip into very bad literary criticism in the service of history
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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
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