Submitted by Berna Hul, Mar 17, 2007 10:00

A. Kirsch opines that "artificial techniques of suspense..., along with a clunky prose style, make [Matthew Stewart's *The Courtier and the Heretic*] less good than it deserves or wants to be...."
With no concern for Stewart's philosophical acumen OR the worth of his remarkably readable book, I cannot imagine a style that Kirsch would consider "un-clunky."

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