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is bad writing necessary?

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 11:25pm.
...that related follow-up conversation with AD was prompted by the Lingua Franca piece Tim Burke mentioned during his visit to our class last week, James Miller's "Is Bad Writing Necessary? George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, and the Politics of Literature" (9, 9, December/January 2000). This is as good a description I've read anywhere of why theory might be so difficult to read (ready?) because it fulfills a political function, reminding us all of the impossibility of getting to any clear "foundation" of truth....

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