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...students.The sweeping changes to the concentration are progressive and liberating amendments to a set of requirements that caters to a rather narrow set of interests. The current system requires that all concentrators complete English 10a and English 10b—two semesters of introductory courses on the English canon??as well as fulfill pre-1800 literature, American literature, and sophomore seminar requirements—along with their departmental electives. Under the new proposal students are freed from these rigid requirements. Instead, non-honors concentrators would be expected to take one course from each of the four...
...enthusiasm—“What a piece of writing this is!” or “What an amazingly blasphemous little mélange.” At times, his selections read like a “best of” edition of the Western canon??the most poignant selections of Stendhal, Woolf, and Nabokov. By the end of the book, you want nothing more than to curl up with one of Wood’s favorites and continue to marvel.Wood’s insistence on the process and the construction of fiction...
...difficult to dispute the impact of revered British writers such as Shakespeare, academic readers should learn to actively critique their work—not to idolize but to continually question their cultural value, as they would when reading any book. Even this slight change in approach would prevent the canon??and the department—from becoming stagnant, and would encourage students to think more creatively and intelligently about what constitutes a “great work...
...this Core requirement. On the one hand, you’d be up against those English concentrators who break down sonnets like it’s their job, and the reading list won’t be very focused (unless you consider “excerpts from the Western Canon?? focused). On the other hand, you’ll be dealing with classic texts that are either (a) a joy to read or (b) great to say that you’ve read (“ I can’t tell you how much I was taken...
Offending feminists and conservatives alike, Paglia has defined her own political territory. She upholds the importance of the traditional Western Canon??and she has gone on the record as pro-pornography and pro-prostitution. During her time as a columnist on salon.com, she criticized a college date rape controversy as “creakingly passé, victim-centered, [and] anti-male.” She also defended Allan Ginsberg’s membership in the North American Man-Boy Love Association, and called Ginsberg “the apostle of a truly visionary sexuality...