By the way, this post was about literary post-structuralism and deconstructivism (Derrida, Foucault) being taught in literature courses before students have a grasp of what those ideas are criticising or breaking away from. This was NOT about Saussurehttps://twitter.com/w_guppy/status/966014716010262528 …
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As I have said before, students rarely know their poetic meter and are not equipped to have an interesting or fruitful discussion about the Death of the Author. Either University needs to become far more selective (impossible now) or introduce a year of rote learning of basic
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concepts into the course to compensate for the bad education students during their state (and sometimes even private) schooling and prepare them for three years of discussing modernism, post-modernism etc.
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