Sartre? Camus? Faulkner?
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I bet it's Faulkner. I forgot about him bc my most extensive stint in literature was no in an English department.
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Throwin' down for Steinbeck.
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I guess question is what counts as an academic paper. If we include high school? Hands down Steinbeck.
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Hemingway in the mix too.
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Damnit. Now I want to know answer. FWIW, I bid for either Morrison or Garcia Marquez for grad & prof papers
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I bet Faulkner if you add undergrad. And either Hemingway or Steinbeck if you include high school and above
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Yeah. No disrespect to Bob Dylan or Samuel Beckett, but ... no way.
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As someone who has written academic papers on all three I bet Faulkner and Morrison beat Eliot. The latter is (gasp) poetry!
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@emptywheel Oh, I trust your actual subject matter & experiential knowledge here versus my complete conjecture! Fun thought exercise though -
You shouldn't. My PhD was not in English, & therefore entirely unrepresentative of what happens in most-attended lit classes
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Better than me stuck in a very unacademic DC environment
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Morrison by a landslide.
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Possibly also García Márquez.
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For sure top 10. Beckett, Steinbeck, Camus, Faulkner...
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Sometimes I forget English departments exist.
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Thought I had given them up, but the open syllabus stuff keeps pulling me back in!
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@emptywheel On further reflection, I’m against the Dylan Nobel. Claiming Dylan as literature feels like 90s lit crit imperialism.
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Yeah, dude is not even close.
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Was gonna cc you on that. I'd actually like to see a comparison. García Márquez would be way up there too.
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