What does "Della Cruscan" mean, anyway?

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I probably offended someone yesterday in the discussion at the poetics seminar. I said that Linda Hutcheon had done damage to discussions of postmodernism by identifying the movement with a narrow range of middle-brow novels of the Doctorow variety. Of course, my friend in the Slavic department said, "I like Doctorow and Fowles." It honestly hadn't occured to me that someone would take these novelists seriously! I live in a bubble.