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...metafictional elements of Valparaiso could keep grad students busy for the foreseeable future. The distinction between the play and reality are blurry: as previously noted, the audience of the play becomes the audience of the talk show within the play. DeLillo dedicates the play with no small degree of irony to Frank Lentricchia (author of Introducing Don DeLillo), a man who has built a career out of explicating DeLillo. It's a telling gesture: the vast majority of the press for Valparaiso has centered not around the play and what it means but the author himself. Newspapers and magazines fawn...
...proceed cautiously. You have one elective left and Af-Am 10 does not count for your concentration. Soon you will graduate into a world that uses math. The planets are summoning you to...grad school. For Folklore and Mythology. Then, you will write horoscopes. Marry someone who remembers how to carry digits during subtraction...
...Students like me who take the honors track because they want to go to grad school in English are still going to choose to write a thesis. Those who aren't going to go to grad school in English probably don't need to and they shouldn't have to," she says...
Sure, some will slip through the cracks and be lured back for more mental punishment, but sooner or later, the grad school gig will become worse than this Doberman-eat-Doberman world. They'll be begging to be thrown into the ring, like those Christians to the lions...
...Before this course was created, we found thatstudents had a lot of knowledge, but that it wasnot systemized," he says. "So, they would jumpinto grad courses immediately, but without a firmbackground...