Daphne Patai
Author of Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent
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Daphne Patai is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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- 1943
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Patai, József (grandfather)
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My attitude towards some of this material has surely changed since I was in a situation where dealing with it was de rigeur, and it is interesting (to me, anyway) to compare the situation re: certain types of 'theory' having a stranglehold on literature departments that is ... perhaps? ... functionally equivalent to the stranglehold string theory has had in many physics departments (especially since one of the more infamous blemishes on the shining surface of the Theory Machine was its adherents' frequent, complete misunderstandings of scientific concepts, which misunderstandings did not, of course, prevent them from writing about said concepts).… (more)