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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Academia has made literature an incredibly unappealing thing to study. Take a look at the specialities of your average English Department these days. It's not something you want to spend four years immersed in. No one has done more to destroy language and literature than contemporary academia. It is incredibly stifling, boring, pedantic, hyper-political, and all around not fun. I congratulate every bright liberal arts student who has chosen to not major in English. Well done.  [/quote]

Yes. My MIL is an English professor at an Ivy and she would likely agree with everything you wrote.  She hates how hyper-political it has become.  [/quote]
Is she in critical theory or something? Nothing that modern political about many parts of literary theory, rhetoric/comp studies, Modernism (filled with authors more interested in the Classics more than anything else, the drama side of English literature with Beckett and Co, Fiction Writing, and most of Historical lit. The average English academic is more into Virginia Woolf and Macbeth than Agnes Heller. [/quote]

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