Introduction Denis Donoghue DENIS DONOGHUE, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1983, is University Professor and Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. He has written or edited more than thirty books, including The Practice of Reading (1998), for which he received the Robert Penn Warren/Cleanth Brooks Prize in literary criticism. His recent publications include On Eloquence (2008) and Irish Essays (2011). He is a Fellow of the British Academy. ome countries have a master narrative, some not. Those that do are expected to live up to its demands, or incur the shame of neglecting them. Countries too recent or too disheveled to have such a narrative generally settle for a political economy and hope to see it thrive. But even great empires decline and fall. There are countries that have a grand narrative but not the economy to sustain it: like Greece, they have fallen into the decadent phase of their story. Each member country of the European Unionâtwenty-seven at last countâhas agreed to put aside its grand narrative, if it has one âor at least to keep quiet about itâin return for the boon of sharing a political, social, and
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