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The Gunpowder Plot is not one of the best-written, or polemically most challenging of the many books on the subject; and while I have been made to change my mind on a number of detailed points, I learnt nothing about the reign.

Greek philosophy drew many of its founding orientations from poetry and the arts, even if it polemically turned to insist on its own superiority.

Adams (1990 & 1994) has noted that a very similar pattern of claim and counter claim was established in the United States following the publication of Rudolph Flesch's polemically provocative books, Why Johnny Can't Read (1955) and Why Johnny Still Can't Read (1981).

In short, Homolka's discussion of Baeck's liberalism within the context of nineteenth-century German Protestantism - focusing on Jewish reactions to von Harnack's Essence of Christianity - does not move beyond the claim of an eternally receptive and defensive Judaism reacting polemically to the challenge of vibrant, creative Christianity.

More polemically, postmodernism can be usefully understood as the situation in which `contexts, procedures, definitions, distinctions and categories which used to be the unquestioned province of privilege groups have become open to negotiation and debate' (Gerald Graff and Michael Warner, The Origins of Literary Studies in America.

But just as Grassi's notion of 'game' seems very different from post-structuralist jouissance, so his 'metaphor' seems facilitatory rather than disruptive, less polemically productive but more emotionally creative than the tropes of his contemporaries.

He states this polemically in his 'Introduction': 'To put it bluntly, I still believe in literature's primary realities, texts and authors, finding them of more lasting interest than readers', or theorists' responses to them, including my own.' (p.

Yet it is a feature of Kerman's writing that he frequently presents his ideas polemically, something that he realizes and regrets (just a little), 'but there it is'.

Invitees were asked to respond to the question(s) in roughly 1000 words, which necessarily means an invitation to write somewhat polemically. And, needless to say, participants were allowed to challenge the project itself, though, interestingly, even Philip Bobbitt, who eloquently offers just such a challenge, does not assert that the Constitution is truly perfect as it stands.

Rather, he issues his arguments polemically as a challenge to Plato to disambiguate key terms, supply tacit assumptions, and clarify various commitments - much as Fine does herself in this book, one might add.

After assuming political motivations on the part of particular authors, Burleigh and Wippermann then complain that the various historical controversies have unfortunately been conducted polemically, and that students can easily lose sight of the larger picture.

With Oliver Goldsmith, the analysis too often relies on polemically inspired cliches like the supposed 'double vision' of 'an Anglo-Irish writer', and 'the kind of patriotism which is rooted in Tory monarchism'.