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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear—and even, in certain respects, would be—the most modern of critical movements.

Paul Deman

Paul Deman (1919–1983), Belgian-born U.S. literary critic. lecture, September 1969; repr. In Blindness and Insight (1971, revised 1983). "Literary History and Literary Modernity."

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