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I love poetry more than i love most things, but comic books can be "literary" too, if that's even a worthwhile category, which i think it's not. > Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 20:41:47 +0000 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Monopolisation > To: [log in to unmask] > > Tim writes: “And isn’t a university department one of the natural homes for literature?” > > 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”. > > > (yes, I exaggerate, a little, but the interest in and teaching of poetry—of any kind—is greatly diminished). > > > Jeremy