Contents

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Acknowledgments

1. Use and Abuse

2. The Pleasures of the Canon

3. What Isn’t Literature

4. What’s Love Got to Do with It?

5. So You Want to Read a Poem

6. Why Literature Is Always Contemporary

7. On Truth and Lie in a Literary Sense

8. Mixed Metaphors

9. The Impossibility of Closure

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