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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps as an undergraduate you read Oscar Wilde’s mirthful, satiric essay “The Critic as Artist.” It should be read not only by the English professoriate, but by its counterparts in art and music history, history and philosophy.

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Rethinking the Future of the Humanities

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Want to know why John Guillory’s Professing Criticism has attracted such widespread attention? The challenges that literary studies faces are evident to anyone who cares to look. The field has fragmented. The field is besieged. What happened? I don’t think so.