... of the Western tradition have only become such because they were susceptible to reproducibility in print. Do you agree? This essay aims to identify some of the factors which have combined to generate this reproducibility, by trying to clarify what is meant by a classic and how and why these texts should be elevated to the ranks of the literary canon. The ... of our lost souls, and even a majority of those are replicas. Mercer reflects the trend of other postmodernist texts; the idea of blurred identities and a blurred concept of self providing a variation on the Liberal Humanist notion ...

• Word Count: 2215
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate