Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The Death of the English Department

Food for thought, from The American Scholar, via Arts & Letters Daily, which you should have been reading all along.

HJ

Posted by Bing at 11:03 AM

1 comments:

mikespeir said...

Of course, some of this is, "It's important to me, so it ought to be important to you." But, in fact, it is important. It's important for the reason Chace implies when he says English departments have "[drifted] away from the notion that historical chronology is important." The study of language teaches us more than how to communicate. It tells us what we were, what we are, and points to what we will be.

September 23, 2009 1:58:00 PM CST

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