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Bradford provides similarly interesting exegeses of autobiographical echoes in other Highsmith novels, but this generally valuable material gets lost in an endless parade of lovers and equally endless litany of Highsmith’s appalling personal conduct.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2021

You’ll find it in Mad Men exegeses, literary criticism in the New Yorker, all sorts of movie reviews, theater criticism, and music reviews.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2015

In the twentieth century, New Critics enshrined Shakespeare’s plays as complex poetic art, unified through patterns of metaphor, irony, and paradox, and generations of students were compelled to write exegeses of his linguistic richness.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2015

Perhaps acclaim of the kind he describes in “My Prizes” would smother the idiosyncrasies of his texts with bland, universalizing exegeses.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2010

Also, various paraphrases and elaborate exegeses of the words spoken to her; a great abundance of added commentary upon what she saw inwardly or outwardly.

From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by Tyrrell, George