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...have been Coupland’s play for postmodern literary power, an ill-conceived appeal to critics to see him as more than a pop-culture reference point. It may never have occurred to him that “JPod” confirmed his place as one of literature??s most cherished living satirists. While it is generally laudable for an artist to broaden their scope as their career matures, Coupland would do better to stay with what he knows—intelligent, original satire instead of hackneyed fatalism. In a world where death lurks in the toothpaste...
...introductory seminars that have long defined undergraduate study at Harvard. But in spite of the condensed curriculum, department administrators stress that their course offerings have not been watered down. The majority of humanities and social science concentrations—including African and African American studies, government, and history and literature??will offer a one-semester sophomore tutorial in the spring, instead of the traditional class spanning sophomore year. “We have to be a little more selective in what we include,” said History and Literature Lecturer Amy L. Spellacy, emphasizing that the point...
...irony and postmodern tongs,” intelligent people should reject “a narrow, debased concept of entertainment.” Instead, Chabon proposed an expanded definition encompassing “everything pleasurable that arises from the encounter of an attentive mind with a page of literature??—a well-written sentence, a shocking plot twist, a pointed challenge to our political or philosophical beliefs, or an ineffable moment of transcendence. In “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” Chabon fulfills that essay’s promise...
...only beginning to know what a concentration was. Amid the flyers and pamphlets, I wondered aloud to a department member why so much British fiction was required, and if that would be changing anytime soon. Her smile suddenly disappeared. “Well, it is English and American Literature??” she replied...
...unacceptably with its almost-exclusive focus on British literature, leaving no place for those who want to study a wide range of English-language literature using the department’s rigorous methodology, as opposed to the Literature Department’s more modern, theoretical approach or History and Literature??s interdisciplinary...