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De-Eroticization
“The idea of the proper-name effect allegorizes the de-eroticization of normative value(s).” Writer Amitava Kumar quotes this wonderfully characteristic academic sentence in his darkly comic essay, “Theory vs. Literature,” over at Bookslut. The sentence itself was produced by The Virtual Academic, a Web toy created under the auspices of the University of Chicago Writing Program. I encourage you all to give it a try.Read More