In the early 90s, before I
retired, I became an anti-postmodernist bore. I couldn't shut up about what was happening in English
departments. Now I see in the Wall
Street Journal (Opinion, Jan. 4-5) that UCLA has dropped its requirement that
English majors take "one course in Chaucer, two in Shakespeare, and one in
Milton." Instead it will
require that they take "a total of three courses in the following four
areas: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Disability, and Sexuality Studies; Imperial,
Transnational, and Postcolonial Studies; genre studies, interdisciplinary
studies, and critical theory; or creative writing."
Why didn't I bore more people?
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