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Jiang's phrase for a subtle literary intervention that changes the reader's inherited mental structure without direct confrontation.
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poetic surgery
Jiang's phrase for a subtle literary intervention that changes the reader's inherited mental structure without direct confrontation.
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Dante's mission is to remove Virgil from the European mind because Virgil's poetry had become the inherited operating system of educated Europeans.
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"...he basically needs to he basically needs to um poetically do surgery okay and the way and so what i'll do is this first..."
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"...threat they will reject you so dante has to perform um surgery on the brain that is nuanced and subtle and sophisticated okay the..."
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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