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praxis

As artists, people for whom literature was never only ideology but also praxis, we are in a position to be able to argue that the creation and the critical study of literature should remain at the heart of what departments of English are about.

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—p.118 Writing the Life Postmodern (112) by Curtis White
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cathexis

that's why everybody should pay attention to it: because everybody's fighting about it. It is a culturally cathected term.

postmodernism

—p.113 Writing the Life Postmodern (112) by Curtis White
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bwana

Thus the poetic soul: self-serving and macho as any literary bwana

—p.112 Writing the Life Postmodern (112) by Curtis White
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dandified

An oily dandy with great hair

—p.112 Writing the Life Postmodern (112) by Curtis White
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diachronic

the diachronic construct of those feelings in sequence, in action

—p.111 SYSOUT=A (109) by William T. Vollmann
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