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Critiquing the Critics: Reinventing the Same Idea, Again, and Again.

There is a naïve trend festering in modern literary criticism, whereby critics feebly try to analyze and interpret ancient literature through the application of modern philosophies, concepts, and social theory in an attempt to breathe new life in the skeleton of the proverbial dead horse. Occasionally, a critic will serendipitously stumble onto an idea that sets him apart from his peers and ingeniously presents the criticized work in a new light; however, more often than not, these critiques result in a confounding quagmire of copious compound sentences with curiously, cryptic misapplications of complicated words that when spoken aloud could easily be mistaken for the drunken ramblings of a besotted Scrabble expert—such is the magic of literary criticism. This critical phenomenon can be seen in virtually every piece of antique literature, but is particularly poignant in the myriad analyses of The Prologue......

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