Can’t we all just get along?

The tactit assumption has been that students should be exposed only to the results of professional controversies, not to the controversies themselves, which would presumably confuse or demoralize them.
So if we have learned any key concept so far in this class, it is that the field of English Studies is defined by conflict. What is [...]

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Literature and our Experience

I have to say I truly enjoyed the article on literature and lit. criticism. As a professional writing major, I haven’t had much experience with literature studies except for an undergrad Shakespeare class and the required freshman lit course. I love reading and am wholly enthusiastic about plunging deeper into this “new world” over the [...]

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I’m a Literary Man, So Help Me God!

Please take my blog for this week to be a continuation of my blog for last week; I’m trying to reconcile the same concerns.
 
I just finished reading Taylor’s article on “Literature and Literary Criticism,” and I’m more than a little nervous because so far I consider it to be the most effective introduction in the [...]

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