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Lit and Life: My Intellectual Trajectory

By Robin Bates | Published: December 12, 2019

I’ve long held that great literature impacts history harder than lesser literature. I trace the evolution of my ideas in today’s post.

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“Queer and Marxist Readings of Beowulf”

By Robin Bates | Published: October 2, 2014

A Buzzfeed post uses as proof of English majors’ superiority the fact that they can execute queer and Marxist interpretations of “Beowulf.” We explore what such interpretations would entail.

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