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...Swift, author of “Gulliver’s Travels,” for instance, went to rather elaborate means to preserve his secrecy. He arranged for the manuscript to be transcribed to disguise the handwriting, and the manuscript was later delivered by an intermediary. Mullan says that Swift??s obscurity “was a kind of self-promotion–an incitement to his first readers to discover his ‘genius’… Sometimes the last thing that an anonymous author wants is to remain unidentified.”Anonymity...
...English Department does its students a disservice by setting them up to measure a Gish Jen or Toni Morrison against the cultural standards of a Marlow or a Swift??while some Western European standards may inform their writing, the same literary tradition does not wholly apply to these authors, who descend from a canon remarkably distinct from that of old European or English works. Students will be even less equipped to approach works of authors such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, who writes in English, but whose national and cultural experiences are informed by situations far different from those...
...anyone reads the classics of the Western canon anymore (the pragmatist will object that at least they can read, as well as feed their families). A familiarity with canonical texts is no longer considered an essential prerequisite of citizenship in our society. More and more, humanities departments are resembling Swift??s fanciful flying island of Laputa, in which abstracted philosophers hover over the common people, lost in sterile speculative dreaming. Indeed, the Harvard Task Force on General Education has ratified this irrelevance by subjugating the study of literature to insipid notions of cultural inquiry in their recent October...
...outside the embassy. Even after Swift was eventually allowed contact with other hostages and some visitors, her captors censored her reading material to keep her disconnected from the outside world, she said.The hostages were at the mercy of a group of disorganized and sometimes capricious student revolutionaries. One of Swift??s guards wanted to force her to play Russian roulette, she told The Crimson. And Frye says that Limbert, a former student, told him after he was released that he used to hear the revolutionaries “complaining they couldn’t go to class because...
Kidd said she will chair a search committee for Swift??s replacement. Corbin, as well as student leaders from PBHA and PSN, will interview finalists and give final recommendations, she said...