Thursday, March 29, 2007

Spurious Quotation # 9

The aim of criticism should be to send the reader hurrying back to the original text with a new curiosity and a greater insight. It should stimulate the reader to form his own judgments of texts, either in opposition to or in agreement with the critic. Above all, it should attempt to explicate, not obfuscate.
Pierre Macherey

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