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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 08:11:25 CDT
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- From: McDonald James C <jcm5337@USL.EDU>
- Subject: Re: change (deja vu)
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- A year ago I was in a conversation with a philosophy professor here, and we
- began talking about the shapes and changes in our two disciplines. Looking at
- all we teach in the English department here--literature, composition, creative
- writing, linguistics, tech writing, folklore--he asked me the reason for this
- and I began going into history and politics. But I was talking to a philosopher
- and he stopped me. He wanted to know the logic behind grouping all these into
- English. "Logically," he asked (Spock-like), "doesn't literary studies belong
- in the anthropology department?"
- That pretty much ended the discussion since I got too caught up in a fantasy
- of rhet/comp people kicking the lit people out of English and how the
- anthropologists would react. I don't know whether or not that move would be a
- good one, but I think it could be fun to stand back and watch.
- Jim McDonald
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