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		<title>A Review of Christian Wiman&#8217;s Spiritual Autobiography</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his review of Christian Wiman&#8217;s spiritual autobiography, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, Jay Parini discusses Wiman&#8217;s emphasis on the importance of faith to a critic. Here is an extract: It strikes me that criticism—systemic reflection on texts, even on life itself—has lost its urgency during the past 30 years or more, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Essay as Reality Television</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Kirsch discusses whether or not essays are &#8220;extinct&#8221; as a form of writing, and references Michel e Montaigne, whose work is studied in CC201. Here is a sample: The essay, traditionally, was defined by its freedom and its empiricism—qualities that it inherited from its modern inventor, Montaigne. “What do I know?” Montaigne asked, and [...]]]></description>
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