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31. Théophile Gautier, preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin, trans. Joanna Richardson (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1981), 35–36.
32. Ibid., 37.
33. Ibid., 39.
34. Oscar Wilde, preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray in The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (New York: Harper and Row, 1989), 17.
35. Wilde, Letters to Vincent O’Sullivan and Chris Healy. Quoted in Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (New York: Knopf, 1984, 1987), 532–33.
36. Ibid., 532.
37. Ibid., 51–52.
38. Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 236.
39. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, 236–37.
40. Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. John Cumming, in The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed. Vincent B. Leitch, et al. (New York, Norton, 2001), 1239.
41. Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977, 1985), 47.
42. Ibid., 49.
43. Williams, Marxism and Literature, 51–53.
44. Articles on this topic appeared in every news venue. See, for example, Jack Slater, “How Obama Does the Things He Does: A Professor of Rhetoric Cracks the Candidate’s Code.” Slate, February 14, 2008. Stephanie Holmes, “Obama: Oratory and Originality,” BBC News, November 19, 2008. “Era of Obama Rhetoric Is Over,” editorial, Washington Examiner, June 17, 2010 (online).
45. Chávez’s plan for book distribution echoes that of many U.S. cities, like “If All of Seattle Read the Same Book” or “One Book, One Chicago” programs that became popular in the 1990s and continue today.
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1. Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesie, ed. Dorothy M. Macardle (London and New York: Macmillan, 1962), 39.
2. Ibid.
3. Anthony Grafton, Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 31.
4. Alberti, Leon Battista, The Use and Abuse of Books, trans. Renée Neu Watkins (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1999), 17.
5. Ibid., 17–18.
6. Ibid., 18.
7. Ibid., 21.
8. The Malone Society is an extremely earnest and learned scholarly enterprise, named after the eighteenth-century editor of the first variorum edition of Shakespeare. Founded in 1906, the society publishes facsimiles of such little-known Renaissance plays as Hengist, King of Kent, and The Wisest Have Their Fools About Them. When the dance that now ends the annual academic conference was first devised, its originators saw the title as comical, an oxymoron or carnivalization, the equivalent of Shakeapeare’s “hot ice and wondrous strange snow.” The name has naturalized so much that my current graduate students see nothing unusual about it.
9. Alberti, The Use and Abuse of Books, 22.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., 23.
12. Ibid., 24.
13. Ibid., 28–29.
14. Ibid., 31.
15. Ibid., 31.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., 41.
18. Ibid., 42.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., 44.
21. Ibid., 50.
22. Ibid., 51.
23. Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1, The Process of Capitalist Production, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (New York: International Publishers, 1967), 87.
24. Alberti, The Use and Abuse of Books, 53.
25. Ibid., 52.
26. Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Utility and Liability of History,” in Unfashionable Observations, trans. Richard T. Gray (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), 87.
27. Ibid., 136–37.
28. Ibid., 100.
29. Ibid., 102.
30. Ibid., 167.
31. e. e. cummings, “Poem, or Beauty Hurts, Mr. Vinal,” Collected Poems (New York: Harcourt, Brace). Cited in Norman Birkett, The Use and Abuse of Reading (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1951), 29.
32. Birkett, The Use and Abuse of Reading, 30–31.
33. Bacon, “Of Studies,” in The Essays of Francis Bacon, ed. Clark Sutherland Northup (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1908), 155.
34. Harold F. Brooks, The Use and Abuse of Literary Criticism: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Birkbeck College 26th June 1974