Assertion: literary criticism | /r/HasAspect | long history
Facets:
value: than celebrating itself
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: These seem like crucial questions: crucial because, in your second year of university, and your first year as a major, you ought to think for a moment about what the hell it is that you’re supposed to be doing; crucial because if my department doesn’t do a good job of explaining what it is that we do, we may never get to hire another tenure-track professor (which would be bad, though I would get to avoid the family romance of the hiring process); and crucial because literary criticism has a long history of eating itself, rather than celebrating itself.