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Online Text Databases and the Literary Canon

Electronic texts can disguise the categorical markers found in their physical counterparts, eliminating many of the paratextual features which position a work within a particular tradition of authorship and readership and enabling the new reader to approach with fewer preconceptions: with the bland egalitarianism of vanilla plain text, there is no such thing as a popular edition or a prestige hardback.

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By what measure is it a good thing that an English student with three years of Arts and Humanities Research Council funding will receive around £50 000 to study literature? Would that money not be better spent on an engineer? ("The Value of an English PhD")

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Creative Writing: Poetry and Short Stories

On the bench provided, he sits at the top of the street
On a shopping Saturday, and watches the faces,
And sweaty palms pinned to plastic bags,
Advancing on their burst between glass fronts,
Muddied with the money of modern style
(The Veteran)

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