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Nothing could be more depressing than to see a literature curriculum determined by identity politics with dutiful representation from the required range of underrepresented groups. Nothing, that is, except a literature curriculum that betrayed the fundamental function of literature and other art
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centres on the fundamentalist Bible reading in the early 16th century. Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American
Tradition defines the long and unending history of image breaking in Anglo-American culture, leading up to, across, and beyond the Reformation. Permanent Revolution: the
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Illiberal Roots of Liberalism defines the English Reformation as a long period of revolution, with all the cultural features of revolutionary movements, and asserts that Liberalism was the answer to the violence-producing pressures produced.
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Simpson's work is centred on the shape and logic of literary works in their historical context. He believes that the purpose of literature and other art forms is "to hear the voices repressed by official forms of a given culture."
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from the 12th to the late 14th centuries (e.g. Alan of Lille's
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forms, which is to hear the voices repressed by official forms of a given culture. All great literature magnifies the repressed voice
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Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text, Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library, 1 (Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1990)
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Prize – "Significant Contribution to the Field of John Gower Studies",
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