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...what’s wrong with holding down no job at all? Can’t someone go down to the sea and work on her browning and Browning? Only if there’s a book in it. Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is a joint English and American literature and languages and classics concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...said. “I think that’s a disservice to young people.”Five years later, CRLS has been taken off probation and the district has made significant progress in some areas. On the 2007 MCAS exam, 91 percent of students passed the English Language Arts (ELA) exam, compared with 79 percent in 2003; 90 percent passed the Mathematics exam, compared with 69 percent in 2003. But critics of Fowler-Finn have assailed him for being too “test-oriented” in his pedagogical emphasis and “misleading?...
Unfortunately, your editorial rests its case on Orwells’ commitment to usage without noting that Orwell had a thing for history as well—and that “The Department of English and American Literature and Language” says a lot about how English departments have developed over the years...
...American texts to the canon, which did not really occur until after WWII. It reflects a longstanding tension between the study of literature as something treated objectively (language) and its study as something subjective and inspired (Literature with a capital L). Since the creation of English departments in the late 19th century, “pedants” or “scholars” have shared duties with “dilettantes” or “critics”—often angrily. Questions of methodology can lead to fierce infighting—which in turn...
...writer is a graduate student in the Department of English and American Literature and Language...