To the Editor:
Simon During’s diagnosis of a minority conservative turn in literary studies is well taken, although it risks conflating distinct trends, and obscuring available alternatives (“The Conservative Turn in Literary Studies,” The Chronicle Review, January 6). The return to literary form and judgment, as against explicitly politicized scholarship, is the hinge upon which During’s analysis turns. There is no question that these concerns are of the moment, and some of the least persuasive recent political-literary scholarship surely succumbs to the accusations leveled by the “conservative” micro-trend.
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