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Edited: Criticism in the University
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Publication Year: 1985
ASIN: 081010671X
ISBN: 081010671

Criticism in the University, ed., Gerald Graff and Reginald Gibbons (Northwestern University Press, 1985)

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The state of chronic hypochondria in which literary education subsists shows no sign of abating. Indeed, in some quarters it is entering an acute phase. Regular and formerly healthful activities lose their zest, attacked by morbid depression of spirits. The milder forms of therapy effect little improvement, and a battery of fantastic remedies is brought to bear, which in spite of energetic promotion do not seem able to establish themselves. Either the patient’s system rejects them, or they provoke hysterical symptoms more alarming than the original complaint.

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