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Hijacking the modern language association: I

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Paul A. Cantor is professor of English at the University of Virginia and a member of the National Council on the Humanities. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Rome, Creature and Creator, and the Hamlet volume in the Cambridge Landmarks of World Literature Series.

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Cantor, P.A. Hijacking the modern language association: I. Soc 36, 24–29 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-999-1022-8

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