Dear Jeremy,
I do not think you exaggerate considerably. In recent years I have not
been able to offer courses on contemporary poetry. Our students do not
register for such courses. When I offered them, I had to cancel them
because of lack of interest.
Best wishes from Salzburg,
Wolfgang
Am 07.04.2016 um 22:41 schrieb Jeremy F Green:
> Tim writes: “And isn’t a university department one of the natural homes for literature?”
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> Sadly, this seems less and less to be the case. Most graduate students, especially the advanced ones, wouldn’t touch a literary text with a barge pole. Nowadays it’s all comic books, digital humanities, and “thing theory”.
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> (yes, I exaggerate, a little, but the interest in and teaching of poetry—of any kind—is greatly diminished).
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> Jeremy
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