Saturday, July 04, 2015

That question again...

...Why College Kids Are Avoiding the Study of Literature
In each of these interest-killing approaches—the technical, the judgmental, and the documentary—true things are said. Of course literature uses symbols, provides lessons in currently fashionable problems, and can serve as a document of its times. The problem is what these approaches do not achieve. They fail to give a reason for reading literature.

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