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...said. But Greenblatt’s qualifications were unsurpassed, Abrams said. “I don’t know anybody better than him in the field of literature in his generation,” Abrams said. Professor of English and American Literature and Language Gordon Teskey, who taught the survey course English 10, “Major British Writers I” this semester, said he has used the Norton Anthology in his teaching for 24 years. “I can testify to what a pleasurable and stimulating guide the anthology has been for generations of students...
...There is a Biology scene, which appears to require constant avowals of a preference for “academic biology” and a hatred of “medical school.” And there is a pretentious, English-concentrator scene that definitely entails smoking and pretending Gordon Teskey is a close relative. There are many, many more scenes available, more than I care to write about, for fear of being offensive. “Scene,” however, doesn’t even try to reflect any of this diversity, and merely inspires constant exclamations...
...acting director of undergraduate studies in English, Gordon Teskey, wrote in an e-mail last night: “When someone’s classes have to be cancelled for medical reasons, we are reminded that the noble enterprise of humanistic studies does finally rely on the human. We are all looking forward to Professor Buell’s return to teaching...
...Aesop’s lyric “the villain of my Kabuki hologram cuz I hobble with hollow hands” (from the titular track of 1999’s “Float”), an enthusiastic Professor of English and American Literature and Language Gordon L. Teskey felt compelled to mention that “a good deal of English verse of the sixteenth century, before the emergence of iambic pentameter in the theatre, sounded like that: longer lines, lots of alliteration, a basically oral style sometimes called “tumbling measure...
...first thing Teskey mentioned in his analysis of “Float,” before any mention of media theory or tumbling measure, was a simple and immutably subjective judgment: “I like it.” As the academy warms up to the rigorous analysis of hip-hop, it is finally beginning to appreciate Aesop’s dedication to “spittin’ the illest shit,” whether he likes...