I want to learn english langug . How Can i get achance in your institution.

And this is different than McCarthyism in what way?

Is it just me, or is the Right Wing getting more and more evil as it gets more and more stupid?

The right takes out bounty on the left

See this article. Continue your reading with the post below.


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"A living, growing thing"
The canon is dead.

Since it first appeared in 1962, "The Norton Anthology of English Literature" has remained the sine qua non of college textbooks, setting the agenda for the study of English literature in this country and beyond. Its editor, therefore, holds one of the most powerful posts in the world of letters, and is symbolically seen as arbiter of the canon.

With the publication of the anthology's newest edition this month, Norton is marking a significant generational shift: after more than 40 years as founding and general editor, M. H. Abrams, a leading scholar of Romanticism, is handing the reins over to Stephen Greenblatt, a Shakespeare scholar and Harvard professor.

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If a book w/out sales of 500 isn't published, no no one will ever get tenure either... I wish I were kidding. Sigh.

And of course, DJW is right. Just had to add my academic .02

If books that cannot command 500 in sales were excluded from publication, the majority of poetry and short fiction collections in Canada -- indeed, the vast majority of most small press titles -- might never see the light of day. Quality and marketability are not always compatible.

The sad state of university presses
Sales are declining, funds are drying up, and the question has to be asked:

Should a book that cannot command sales of 500 be published at all?

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The academic novel and its discontents
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love tenure.

Perhaps we professors turn to satire because academic life has so much pain, so many lives wasted or destroyed. On the spelling corrector on my computer, when I click on English, the alternative that comes up is anguish. Like the suburbs, the campus can be the site of pastoral, or the fantasy of pastoral - the refuge, the ivory tower. But also like the suburbs, it is the site of those perennials of the literary imagination John Updike names as "discontent, conflict, waste, sorrow, fear".

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Allan Bloom: academic elephant

Is Bloom the poster boy for the conservatives or the liberals when it comes to reforming academia?

everyone seems to have missed the elephant in the room: Bloom's ostensibly conservative meditation in fact anticipated and repudiated almost every political, religious and economic premise of Kimball's and Horowitz's movement. Conservatives who reread Bloom today are in for a big, perhaps instructive, surprise.


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What would Derrida think?
An English prof is upset about some editing on Tommy Lee's reality show.

English professor Frances Kaye said she was talking about the wonders of childbirth, but on Tommy Lee's reality show Tuesday night, it appeared she was discussing the wonders of Lee's private parts. Kaye has told the Lincoln Journal Star she is not amused.

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This explains my uncontrollable urge to do grievous harm to Ashton Kutcher whenever I'm marking. I mean, even more grievous than usual....

I believe on a MAC it's called a gerbil. Cuter.

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Re: Punk'd: Sessional Work!

You are so funny! I almost spat cereal all over your new mouse!

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Professor Idol
C'mon, you knew it was just a matter of time.

First there was the singing contest Pop Idol. Then came spinoffs like Canadian Idol and American Idol. Now comes a series that could very well have been dubbed Professor Idol.
The aim of the show, which will air on TVOntario, is not to find the best singer; instead, the producers are scouring Ontario to find the best teacher in the province's post-secondary school system.

Also in the works, an academic version of Punk'd: Sessional Work!

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E-books with expiration dates are coming to campus

Meanwhile, Boing Boing's Corey Doctorow suddenly combusts in the cranial region, then explodes into a million copyright-nerdy pieces.

Alongside the new and used versions of Dante's "Inferno" and "Essentials of Psychology" will be little cards offering 33 percent off if students decide to download a digital version of a text instead of buying a hard copy.

That's not a bad deal for a cash-strapped student facing book bills in the hundreds of dollars. But there are trade-offs. The new digital textbook program imposes strict guidelines on how the books can be used, including locking the downloaded books to a single computer and setting a five-month expiration date, after which the book can't be read.


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Cast it into the fire!

Frodo Baggins, ABD. (Thanks to Lady Ninja, keeper of The Ring. The heavy heavy fucking ring...)


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