Lit programs that have not succumbed to postmodernism/cultural studies

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“Serious” means petrified to you I guess. Not polluted by how the world had changed since you were born?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see you're not a big fan of tolerance or freedom of expression.

DP. Quite the opposite. It’s today’s triggered youth who are intolerant. Any view that doesn’t perfectly alight with their microscopic lived experience makes them melt like butter in the hot sun. A pandemic adolescence spent online in isolation churned out a heck of a lot of whackos.

Seems to me that Harold Bloom was the one who was triggered by the idea that there might be literature or perspectives out there different from his lived experience as a horny old white guy.

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Post modernism in Literature came about in the 50's and 60s. The way I was taught in the early 90s was still strongly influenced by it.

What is it exactly you're looking for, OP? Turn of the 20th century concepts?

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with OP.

One LAC offers a course titled Queer Feminist Environmental Studies (Hamilton College).

Hamilton has an open curriculum and often very small class sizes. Just because it’s offered doesn’t mean it’s prevalent. I went to Hamilton in the late ‘90s and at that time a literature major required classics and a foreign language, which I consider more traditional than other schools at the time.

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Liberty

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Anonymous wrote:Agree with OP.

One LAC offers a course titled Queer Feminist Environmental Studies (Hamilton College).

This could be a very interesting class, depending on the syllabus and how it is taught.

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Anonymous wrote:So my kid got into UC Davis for American Studies. I saw that the transfer admit rate to Berkeley in American Studies was 50% and extrapolated that DC’s odds would be good as a freshman in that major. (They don’t publish admit rates by major for Freshmen). DC’s stats weren’t good enough for Cal but were good enough for Davis. DC was admitted to that school for American Studies. I went over to the department page, and my God, DC is switching his major to history. Here are some of the faculty areas of study in American History: “maps racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural US, from the 1910s to the 1990s,” “ Recuperating radical left articulations of legal lynching as a form of class warfare, the book theorizes lynching photographs as moving images that illuminate the constitutive relationship of racial terror to global capitalism,” “ research has focused primarily on the radical imaginations and deferred dreams of social movements that become entangled with the politics of institutionalization and funding.” I’m not paying for DC to get indoctrinated by these whack jobs.

Are you scared your kid will learn something you don’t want them to know?

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I'm not sure OP understands what Postmodernism actually is. This feels like it comes from a very limited perspective or is deliberately political. There is a version of this question that could be legit, but not the way OP posed it.

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Anonymous wrote:The late great Harold Bloom warned how literary studies was taken over by cultural studies, i.e. not reading the great works at all or "reading" Shakespeare and Dickens through faddish ideological lenses (feminist, Marxist, por-modernist). Traditional literary scholars are in the minority.

At what colleges these days can one get a serious education in literature these days?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_College_(Annapolis/Santa_Fe)

This is what you're looking for. Lots of dead white men.

Nothing wrong with dead white men.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure OP understands what Postmodernism actually is. This feels like it comes from a very limited perspective or is deliberately political. There is a version of this question that could be legit, but not the way OP posed it.

I doubt there's any version of the question that is legit. The entire concept is born of abject ignorance.

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You sound like you have an affinity for authoritarian ways. Perhaps there is a military dictatorship country out there that offers state-sponsored education that would be to your liking.

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Seems like Columbia has succumbed

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/02/columbias-crumbling-core

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like Columbia has succumbed

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/02/columbias-crumbling-core

Totally unbiased source: The Institute on Religion and Public Life, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization (EIN: 52-1628303) and the publisher of First Things, was founded in 1989 by Richard John Neuhaus, a Lutheran pastor who later became a Catholic priest. The Institute’s mission is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see you're not a big fan of tolerance or freedom of expression.

Or they have standards..

+100

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So my kid got into UC Davis for American Studies. I saw that the transfer admit rate to Berkeley in American Studies was 50% and extrapolated that DC’s odds would be good as a freshman in that major. (They don’t publish admit rates by major for Freshmen). DC’s stats weren’t good enough for Cal but were good enough for Davis. DC was admitted to that school for American Studies. I went over to the department page, and my God, DC is switching his major to history. Here are some of the faculty areas of study in American History: “maps racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural US, from the 1910s to the 1990s,” “ Recuperating radical left articulations of legal lynching as a form of class warfare, the book theorizes lynching photographs as moving images that illuminate the constitutive relationship of racial terror to global capitalism,” “ research has focused primarily on the radical imaginations and deferred dreams of social movements that become entangled with the politics of institutionalization and funding.” I’m not paying for DC to get indoctrinated by these whack jobs.

Are you scared your kid will learn something you don’t want them to know?

Yep. BS and garbage. A disgrace.