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Peter Szondi: Positions of a Literary Critic (at the Border)

Rereading, rethinking the work of the literary critic and teacher of literature Peter Szondi today, thirty-six years after his death, is not without ambivalence. At a time when "literature" has become almost a dirty word in many literature departments of American universities, the invocation of a work that is emphatically centered around the question of the task of the literary critic and the nature of his or her subject matter either runs the risk of pure nostalgia or it offers an opportunity for a real rethinking of our task, of the task of those who are now working in departments...