Category Archives: Mythbusting

There is a lot of nonsense on the internet that is sometimes politely referred to as literary exaggeration. (Nonsense is the word I use for bullshit because people inform me that I should not resort to polemics.)  A favorite professor of mine often quoted Melville when discussing literary exaggeration: “It will be a strange sort ofContinue reading “The Truth of the Thing: Critical Thinking about Secondary Sources”