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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Students are bored by reading nothing but Wordsworth and Shakespeare, and I don't blame them. There's more depth and research in literature.[/quote]

What a gross misstatement about students' interests. [b]If anything, they should be reading more classics such as Wordsworth and Shakespeare., which takes effort.[/b][/quote]

This type of narrow minded speaking is killing English as a major area of study. [/quote]
+1, DS loves literature, but his college’s English department is all-out Hostile against offering non Renaissance/victorian or  medieval literature. In a given semester, less than 3 American English courses are offered but British writers can’t be escaped.

English is bleeding students to other humanities social sciences, because it simply hasn’t adapted with the time. It used to be a fun radical study in close reading, but those students are leaving to black/queer/American studies. Comparative literature requires you to engage with international audiences in a way that English simply refuses.[/quote]

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