Insightful, all around great read

As if this wasn’t already evident in my reaction to the first half of his narrative last week, I find Scholes’ book so refreshing.  I am not an English teacher, so I suppose I may not understand if his methods or proposals could be accepted in high school curricula, but nevertheless, I think he is [...]

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You want the truth?

While I truly enjoy Schole’s style of writing and ways of presenting the subject matter much better than Graff’s, I have to admit I was a little confused by his notions of “truth” in English studies. I felt that he spent so much time discussing the importance of truth in English studies that he never [...]

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The truth and nothing but the truth

In my opinion, Scholes’ book, The Rise and Fall of English, is not only the most comprehensive, but also the most interesting book we have read thus far in the semester.  As I read the first half of his book, I could tell that for Scholes the subject of English studies is a very personal [...]

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