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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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? [/quote]

If you want to read books, read books. If you want to know the discipline of literary studies, you learn the discipline as it currently exists. Time travel to 1955 is not an option.[/quote]

The study of literature is too important to cede to the woke ideologues.  [/quote]

What does that mean, exactly?  There is plenty of parroting of this sentiment among (for example) red-state boards of education, but very few of them are able to explain this.  'Great' literature from the past was not composed as a moral handbook that one can mine for eternal truths.  It reflected its time, place, and culture, just as modern literature does.  The fact that some people want there to be a teleology of the western canon doesn't make it true.[/quote]

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