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Title: not a work of good scholarship
Review: Being that this was written by a PHD, I was expecting thoughtful and well-reasoned arguments to respond to. However, this pamphlet appears to simply re-iterate much of the common stock arguments proposed by most critics. There is nothing new to address here which has not already been answered elsewhere [...]. Furthermore, this pamphlet is without references or footnotes, so it does not give the impression of a scholarly work. Instead, the author tends to provide extended monologues on his own opinions and insights--in the end without proving much of anything.
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