Absolutely this. We DO need to reinstitute required theology courses and church attendance at our colleges and universities. Y'all.https://twitter.com/epicciuto/status/1025706541473820678 …
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It's a remnant of a vestige of a memory of a corpse. The most prestigious aspects of the humanities are the most useless.
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Fiction is entertainment, not something that warrants a class of professional consumers. Ethics doesn't make people behave better, and may (judging from the behavior of ethicists and philosophers) make them worse.
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also case in point, the average person probably would value interesting, accessible commentary on works they actually care about and engage with, but litcrit isn't producing any of that and doesn't care to try
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the unselfconsciousness of litcrit giving so much attention to close analysis of pop-culture product when 99.9% of consumers of said product are just staring at them bafflement and horror going "it's a tv show, you dork" is kind of stunning
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Well, most of it is blathering on about incredibly tortured ways to make Breaking Bad about race, class and gender, and by the way capitalism delenda est
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"make" is exactly the right word, too -- & it'd be one thing if what the critics were reading in were at least as interesting as what's already there on "naive" view, preferably more, but they rarely manage that either
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at this point I'd rather hear from a random sample of normal people abt their fav tv show, seems there're better odds of finding sth of value there. litcrit is either failing hard in its most basic function, or ... isn't actually about serving literature or its audiences at all
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It's about showing how Seinfeld actually glorifies the divinity of Christ. Hasn't been anything else during most of my lifetime.
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eh, ime there are honorable outliers here and there but they tend not to survive long in academia and either eventually just have to get out however they can or were never really in it in the first place
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Gass, bc he still writes essays of the form "hey y'all probably don't know [obscure novelist] but they're really good, here's who they are & why they're good" that succeed in motivating me to check out [novelist] and agreeing with him, which hardly anyone even tries anymore
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