> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 20:41:47 +0000
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> Subject: Monopolisation
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> 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