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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What 16/17yo has been interested "for years" in literary criticism?[/quote]
It's called "enjoying reading." Some teens aren't terminally online. [/quote]

I'm the PP who asked. I have one teenager who reads obsessively (no fiction, only a certain period of American history.) I've never heard of a teenager who has been passionate about literary criticism for years. Or an adult for that matter. And I'm an academic. So it sounded like a parental fantasy. Either way I doubt it makes a meaningful difference in an application to a school as competitive as Duke.[/quote]

Wait, you're an academic and you can't readily identify an adult who is passionate about literary criticism? [/quote]

Not this PP. But I am the PP with a grad degree in English and I know many academics/scholars ... and I don't know anyone "passionate about literary criticism." Passionate about literature? Yes. Lit crit? No, lol. Those people surely exist, but you can spend a life in academia and not meet one. [/quote]
Your average republican upperclass finance bro will claim to be steeped in lit crit, that is Harold Bloom and his anti-wokies nonsense. [/quote]

What does this mean?[/quote]

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