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Consider the new reading section of the SAT, which will feature, for the first time, at least one fiction passage on every test. In January, after they began perusing novels to find excerpts, text hunters at Educational Testing Service (ETS), the Princeton, N.J., firm that the College Board pays to write SAT questions, put together a list of books to be avoided when picking passages. On the list were 40 or so titles often assigned in good English classes--novels such as Animal Farm, Catch-22 and Native Son. ETS had a solid psychometric rationale for shunning the books: reading...
...know Dave Eggers after reading his work—just ask his legion of rabid intellectual fans. But last week, about 150 Harvard students and faculty spent an hour getting closer to the post-postmodern hero than any of the countless readers of Eggers’ self-referential, hyperactive fiction, pyrotechnically clever literary journal and wittily personal 2000 meta-memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius...
Wood’s aim in teaching the class, as well as next semester’s course on postwar American and British fiction, is to present what he calls a “writer’s criticism,” which he differentiates from a scholar’s literary analysis...
Wood follows a precedent for literary celebrity that comes through reviewing rather than writing fiction. Known for his thorough analysis and his unwavering stance in the face of greats (Pynchon, DeLillo and Updike have all felt the brunt of his pen), Wood, 37, has been called the last “true” critic. He himself agrees that broader, contextualized criticism—which not only evaluates literature but espouses a theory of art—is less prevalent in these times. The English department, then, has snatched up one of a dying breed...
Wood believes that studying contemporary fiction “might encourage [students] to evaluate canonical works as well...