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is this literary theory book sandbagging (not rlly the right word but) by citing Christopher Ricks as an opponent of ideas like Saussure's "in language there are only differences without positive terms"?
is this literary theory book sandbagging (not rlly the right word but) by citing Christopher Ricks as an opponent of ideas like Saussure's "in language there are only differences without positive terms"?
rlly seems like Ricks can't help but admit that ideas like that are basically true; he just thinks it's self-defeating for theorists to emphasize them.