Often I find myself sifting through existing scholarship and trying to figure out an implicit consensus, and presenting that as my thesis. In other words, I am not demonstrating that other people are wrong, but trying to arrive at a strong statement about what all of us supposedly think. This only works if nobody else has come up with an explicit statement of this implicit consensus.
People could be wrong, of course, but my idea is that Lorca is well-understood, but that he requires me to explain how and why.
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