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Politics, professionalism & the pleasure of reading.
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June 22, 2005
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A few short years ago, the state of literary studies was a subject of public controversy. According to some commentators, the study of literature at the university level had been seized by a malign spirit. Rather than conserving and transmitting the cultural heritage, literary scholars had become at once inaccessible and moralistic, incomprehensible and politically correct, disdainful of the common reader and of literature itself. Worst of all, they enjoyed privileged access to two precious things--young minds and the literary tradition of the nation--both of which they were corrupting.
For many literary scholars, especially those under forty, these were exciting times. ...
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