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Against Historicist Fundamentalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Eric Hayot
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The rest of this essay devotes itself to an elaboration of that claim. Along the way I review the claim's implications for the study of literature in the world. I argue that assertions of fundamental difference, whether genetic or historical, reproduce the worst habits of Eurocentric thought.

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theories and methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 131 , Issue 5: Special Topic: Literature in the World , October 2016, pp. 1414 - 1422
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2016

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