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I've been invited to write an article for an undergraduate magazine at my university on pretty much anything as long as it has 'intellectual rigor'. I'm studying classics and i'm sick of all these article about how the classics are relevant or making forced modern comparisons. Instead I thought it would be fun to write on my other favourite academic discipline literature. I've never written any proper literary criticism before so I was wondering if /lit/ has any pointers or tips? Thank you in advance
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tip for classics: dont try and say something thats never been said. publish-or-perish academics are always trying to force some tortured thesis.
just find something that someone smart said hundreds of years ago (preferably in some underknown epistle), and recast it for a modern audience. "transexualism in ancient athens" does nobody any good.
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yeah thats the sort of thing im sick to death of seeing and reading. It's a modern academic obsession.
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