The declining number of English majors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More diverse population intended in more languages/cultures than just English/Anglo. Specialization in to new majors (literature inside non-Anglo cultural studies)

Why not create a different degree for non anglo?

English, by definition, is anglo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More diverse population intended in more languages/cultures than just English/Anglo. Specialization in to new majors (literature inside non-Anglo cultural studies)

Why not create a different degree for non anglo?

English, by definition, is anglo.

Many English degrees are literature degrees. Literature is pretty international.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More diverse population intended in more languages/cultures than just English/Anglo. Specialization in to new majors (literature inside non-Anglo cultural studies)

Why not create a different degree for non anglo?

English, by definition, is anglo.

Many English degrees are literature degrees. Literature is pretty international.

Oh I also forgot to mention that "English" doesn't just mean white people. Diverse groups of people have contributed to the canon (let's not forget that the Mediterranean is an incredibly diverse place that doesn't just mean the palest Spanish dude you may envision). The canon includes black and brown people that aren't even Western (Chinua Achebe), at least Bloom's did with sections from Africa and India. People will eventually just have to accept that Black people did add to English literary culture in the same way we don't contest that Woolf or Alcott did. Anyone who can read through Mumbo Jumbo or Song of Solomon and cannot see its value in English literature may just like the classics more than the Western Canon.

Bloom's Canon, which he hated:http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

[Anonymous]

Harold Bloom gets a bad rap. He was perceived by the woke crowd to be a stuffy old conservative man who dismissed anything that was written by dead white males or Jane Austen.

Yet he championed Ursula Le Guin, who was thing from a conservative or traditionalist.

[Anonymous]

* wasn't

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More diverse population intended in more languages/cultures than just English/Anglo. Specialization in to new majors (literature inside non-Anglo cultural studies)

Why not create a different degree for non anglo?

English, by definition, is anglo.

Many English degrees are literature degrees. Literature is pretty international.

Oh I also forgot to mention that "English" doesn't just mean white people. Diverse groups of people have contributed to the canon (let's not forget that the Mediterranean is an incredibly diverse place that doesn't just mean the palest Spanish dude you may envision). The canon includes black and brown people that aren't even Western (Chinua Achebe), at least Bloom's did with sections from Africa and India. People will eventually just have to accept that Black people did add to English literary culture in the same way we don't contest that Woolf or Alcott did. Anyone who can read through Mumbo Jumbo or Song of Solomon and cannot see its value in English literature may just like the classics more than the Western Canon.

Bloom's Canon, which he hated:http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

Interestingly Bloom soon regretted providing a list. It just led to people skipping the content of the book and going straight to the appendix.