Postmodernism will soon be confirmed as the American academ… - Don Paterson

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Postmodernism will soon be confirmed as the American academic orthodoxy because it permits, ultimately, the summary dismissal of that last great inconvenience to the free and democratic intellect: the primary text.

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Don Paterson, OBE, FRSL (born 1963) is a Scottish poet, writer and musician.

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