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Title: Whatever happened to true scholarship?
Review: If Tokovich had spent more time analyzing the literature of the American renaissance rather than writing a politically correct pseudo-feminist rant against a supposed white patriarchal conspiracy, this might have been an interesting book. Tonkovich has a flair for language, but is so concerned with toeing the line of academic-speak that this book often reads as an unintentional satire of academic writing. For a wonderful intellectual experience, read this and follow it up with Don Dellilo's White Noise. The satire is all the more enhanced.
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