Sunday, October 11, 2015

Severe forms of literary criticism

Severe forms of literary criticism


We have been seeing so many forms of literary criticism from the carefully contented positions to the downright vulgar in what Ananya Vajpeyi calls the rectionary present. That is how she says "marginalisation is effected through new forms of bahishkara which extend from the  language of insult and injury  including online trolling and online abuse, to intimidation, physical and sexual violence, and ultimately assassination and genocide."
Rushdie had many decades ago called the assassination of writers as the most severe form of literary criticism.

Now you know why I had to write this story.
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