Against Against [x]
In recent years, there has been an “Against [X]” epidemic: against young-adult literature, against interpretation, against method, against theory, against epistemology, against happiness, against transparency, againstambience, against heterosexuality, against love, against exercise, etc. The form announces a polemic—probably a cranky one, and very likely an unfair one. But an essay with such a title has inoculated itself against the criticism of being too polemical or tendentious—after all,did you read the title? Caveat lector!