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Why study literature? The Norton anthology's editors discuss.
By Mark A. McCutcheon 26 August 2012 @ 8:39am Comments (1)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/books/review/norton-anthology-of-english-literature-turns-50.html
Founding editor and centegenarian scholar MH Abrams and fellow editor and New Historicist scholar Stephen Greenblatt talk about the Norton anthology and the raison d'être of literary studies. (The latter is clearly a question they're sick of the bean counters asking.)
Mark A. McCutcheon
Professor of Literary Studies & Chair of Centre for Humanities, Athabasca U
Comments
It was an excellent article. Did you read a little futher to the 'What's a Monkey to Do in Tampa?' story in the Sunday Magazine? It was gold.
Heather Clitheroe August 26, 2012 - 12:20pm