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...presentations--made by Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara Johnson and Assistant Professor of English and of History and literature Meredith McGill--demonstrated how literary studies should and must draw on a variety of disciplines which might at first appear to be unrelated to the text being analyzed...
...think that very good students always find out what they need t know," Vendler adds. "They oddly find themselves migrating into Bible classes or Latin classes...
...university is too late, entirely toolate," Vendler says. "Any ideal university will bewelcoming at its entrance people whose memorieshad already been superbly trained...
...Vendler, while acknowledging the trade-off,nevertheless praises the new knowledge she saysstudents have gained...
...canon is made by writers and not byprofessors or anthologists," Vendler concludes."Teachers and anthologists in the market have abrief and temporal reign for a given century...