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Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.'

Terry Eagleton

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Die meisten Literaturwissenschaftler können eine Metapher auswählen oder ein ethnisches Klischee entdecken, aber nicht viele von ihnen können Dinge sagen wie: "Der sardonische Ton des Gedichts stimmt merkwürdig mit seiner plodenden Syntax überein."

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