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[quote=Anonymous]This question is framed in sort of a weird way.

I have two friends who are professors. One is a Shakespeare expert and the other teaches Russian lit, both at schools that are often discussed ion this board.  Both look at the literature through “different” lenses — eg, looking at class, race, gender in Shakespeare (which are actually huge themes in Shakespeare) and the other looking at post-modern themes  I’m too dumb to articulate in Russian lit.  You don’t get tenure writing the same stuff about Shakespeare that’s been written for 400 years.  Plus, it’s not that interesting for students to only talk about the obvious stuff.  If you can look at a work from a few different perspectives, doesn’t that make it more interesting?  I think there are lots of schools still teaching “the canon” but if you aren’t looking at it from different perspectives to see how it can speak to our modern lives, that it’s pretty moribund.

By the way, the Rest is History podcast did an excellent podcast on the history in Canterbury Tales and why this was a shockingly radical piece for its time, including the feminism inherent in the work.  Highly recommend!  And those guys are not what I’d call radical deconstructionists.  
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