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This chapter begins by questioning the hegemony of the academic essay as the archetypal genre of scholarship, calling instead for a tentative, exploratory, observational and open-ended model of criticism, as being a more adequate vehicle for the kinds of thinking, feeling and reflection that Literary Studies can and should involve. It concludes (or rather, refuses to conclude) by offering an assessment of contemporary Literary Studies’ strengths and weaknesses, and by entertaining its readers with a ballad.
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Butler, C. (2018). Inconclusion. In: Literary Studies Deconstructed. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90475-7_6
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