Despite_PRP the_AT0 saying_NN1 ,_PUN comparisons_NN2 are_VBB not_XX0 necessarily_AV0 odious_AJ0 ._SENT They_PNP can_VM0 be_VBI helpful_AJ0 and_CJC illuminating_AJ0 ._SENT But_CJC I_PNP am_VBB afraid_AJ0 that_CJT Ben_NP0 Libman_NP0 's_POS essay_NN1 on_PRP modernism_NN1 (_PUL March_NP0 28_CRD )_PUR confirms_VVZ it_PNP ._SENT I_PNP have_VHB absolutely_AV0 no_AT0 idea_NN1 why_AVQ anyone_PNI would_VM0 want_VVI to_TO0 resurrect_VVI ,_PUN let_VVB alone_AV0 subscribe_VVB to_TO0 ,_PUN one_PNI of_PRF Virginia_NP0 Woolf_NP0 's_POS worst_AJS moments_NN2 ,_PUN when_CJS she_PNP wrote_VVD some_DT0 outrageously_AV0 classist_AJ0 comments_NN2 about_PRP the_AT0 "_PUQ self-taught_AJ0 working_AJ0 man_NN1 "_PUQ who_PNQ wrote_VVD "_PUQ Ulysses_NP0 ._SENT "_PUQ That_DT0 comment_NN1 should_VM0 be_VBI allowed_VVN to_TO0 die_VVI in_PRP peace_NN1 ._SENT But_CJC to_TO0 make_VVI it_PNP the_AT0 basis_NN1 for_PRP an_AT0 argument_NN1 is_VBZ truly_AV0 misguided_AJ0 ._SENT Surely_AV0 there_EX0 is_VBZ a_AT0 way_NN1 to_TO0 praise_VVI the_AT0 fictions_NN2 of_PRF 1925_CRD without_PRP putting_VVG down_AVP the_AT0 great_AJ0 modernist_AJ0 works_NN0 of_PRF 1922_CRD like_PRP "_PUQ Ulysses_NP0 "_PUQ and_CJC "_PUQ The_AT0 Waste_AJ0 Land_NN1 ._SENT "_PUQ To_TO0 echo_VVI Woolf_NP0 in_PRP calling_VVG those_DT0 works_NN0 "_PUQ ultimately_AV0 nauseating_AJ0 "_PUQ is_VBZ not_XX0 doing_VDG a_AT0 service_NN1 to_PRP anyone_PNI ,_PUN or_CJC to_PRP serious_AJ0 literary_AJ0 criticism_NN1 ._SENT If_CJS the_AT0 point_NN1 is_VBZ merely_AV0 to_TO0 say_VVI that_DT0 modernism_NN1 in_PRP literature_NN1 was_VBD established_VVN over_PRP the_AT0 decade_NN1 of_PRF the_AT0 1920s_CRD ,_PUN and_CJC not_XX0 solely_AV0 in_PRP 1922_CRD ,_PUN when_AVQ those_DT0 two_CRD extraordinarily_AV0 powerful_AJ0 and_CJC important_AJ0 works_NN0 came_VVD out_AVP ,_PUN why_AVQ not_XX0 just_AV0 say_VVI that_DT0 ?_SENT Certainly_AV0 it_PNP is_VBZ true_AJ0 ,_PUN as_CJS Libman_NP0 ,_PUN citing_VVG the_AT0 scholar_NN1 Mark_NP0 McGurl_NP0 ,_PUN says_VVZ :_PUN Hemingway_NP0 's_POS stories_NN2 were_VBD extraordinarily_AV0 important_AJ0 in_PRP the_AT0 teaching_NN1 of_PRF fiction-writing_NN1 in_PRP creative_AJ0 writing_NN1 programs_NN2 ._SENT But_CJC why_AVQ is_VBZ it_PNP necessary_AJ0 to_TO0 deny_VVI the_AT0 influence_NN1 of_PRF "_PUQ Ulysses_NP0 "_PUQ and_CJC "_PUQ The_AT0 Waste_AJ0 Land_NN1 "_PUQ in_PRP order_NN1 to_TO0 make_VVI that_CJT (_PUL now_AV0 quite_AV0 familiar_AJ0 )_PUR point_NN1 ?_SENT Surely_AV0 we_PNP can_VM0 happily_AV0 appreciate_VVI all_DT0 these_DT0 works_NN0 and_CJC the_AT0 influence_NN1 that_CJT they_PNP had_VHD ._SENT 
