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"A woman could never write Finnegans Wake or Ulysses"

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    4 years ago

    the real question is what's up with the person taking a "grad class devoted to Ulysses" who's mad that it has a lot of of scholarship devoted to it. Like, how do you begin to get a graduate level education in literature if you find the idea of obsessively studying literature laughable? what are you even getting a degree for?

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Actually maddening. The fact a book took a century to be fully understood by scholars should be appealing to you if you're doing a graduate degree in literature.

      • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Some goof wrote a weird book that then took a century of academic navel gazing to figure out

        Imagine if that time and effort had been spent helping people instead.

    • RowPin [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Dunno about grad school, but I've known English or Literature majors who don't read anything past YA fiction.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Maybe they thought it was about going really deep into Hunger Games lore or something.