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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's really not that difficult to get an English degree these days and not ever be required to read Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, Dickens or Melville. Many if not most people who graduated with lit degrees in the last 30 years probably read very little canonical texts while in college.[/quote] Defining a set Canon ends up getting messy anyway. I read George Eliot but not actually Dickens in class, for instance. But then even then, do you read Middlemarch or Silas Marner or Daniel Deronda. It's not possible to study every classic for class and my personal experience is you end up more focusing on your concentration area than becoming a generalist. My personal reading hole is very Russian Literature shaped. I never finished Brothers Karamazov or Anna Karenina, let alone War and Peace.[/quote]
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