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...decided that the teaching of English literature is no longer necessary. Instead, the department is threatened because the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote on April 8 to decide whether to change its name from the cumbersome “Department of English and American Literature and Language?? to the more concise “Department of English.” University Professor Helen Vendler seemed uninspired by and indifferent toward the proposed alteration, calling it a “routine change.” However, small as it may seem, the new name does...
...last paragraph, as a kind of apologetic wave to the form that had to be adopted in order to relate these events. Similarly, Millhauser faces the difficulty of expressing the absurd and the magical with the words of pedestian reality: it is difficult to keep the awkwardness of language??s inherent inadequacy from permeating his narration. As Millhauser’s characters are consumed by a desire to break beyond the realm of perception imposed upon them by their environment, so does their creator strive to transcend the limitations of language only to remain shackled by his medium...
...Although English was his third language??he picked up French and Spanish early in his continent-hopping cosmopolitan childhood—he was renowned for his erudite, highly refined, and idiosyncratic prose, often ridiculed by detractors as “sesquipedalian.” The son of an oil-baron millionaire, he attended posh private schools in Paris, London, and New York, and graduated from Yale a talented and ambitious young writer...
...Spanish class.) According to the 2000 census, over 46 million people living in U.S. speak a language other than English at home. Like foreigners, Americans feel threatened. American politicians have turned whether or not English should be the U.S.’s “national language?? into a political wedge issue. Fear of loss of identity through loss of language is, however, shortsighted...
...politicize language??to attempt to legislate it at all—is to fight against the natural evolution of human communication and expression. Legislation that attempts to conserve the “purity” of a tongue is not only futile but also potentially harmful. It impedes intercultural understanding by turning what should be nothing more than a language barrier (and one that is likely being overcome, at that) into an ideological wall. It hampers individual creative expression by denying persons access to the words that might best convey what they mean. Freedom of expression should prevail...