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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]English is no longer the field you or your literary college buddy majored in. It's basically Woke Studies now. Goodbye Shakespeare, hello Ibram X. Kendi. Why pore over dead white guy drivel like Ulysses when you can read The Hate U Give for class like your middle school cousin is doing? This is what super woke left wing SJWs have done to once-great English departments across the country. And it's why serious students don't major in it anymore.[/quote]

Close, but maybe not quite right.  Shakespeare is still offered, but with a “re-imagined” interpretation.  Ditto for Joyce and Faulkner and others who were staples of English Literature (including American authors, not just UK authors) for many many decades.

Harold Bloom was not always right, but he was right much more often than he was wrong.  In our house, our DC still read books from his literature canon, because those books provide much of the cultural underpinning for the English Language.  Shakespeare (and Tyndale) were huge permanent influences on the English language.[/quote]

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