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Editor's Column: The First Blow—Torture and Close Reading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Marianne Hirsch
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Editorial
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PMLA , Volume 121 , Issue 2 , March 2006, pp. 361 - 370
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2006

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