I don't know man? This sounds like more of the same rationalizing that the article posits as the reason for the decline. "Oh, our ludicrously obtuse screeds on

I don't know man? This sounds like more of the same rationalizing that the article posits as the reason for the decline. "Oh, our ludicrously obtuse screeds on Arethusa, her couch of snows, and the Acroceraunian mountains is not at all viewed as valueless in society. It's our ludicrously obtuse screeds on Morrison that people don't like. Let's write more ludicrously obtuse screeds on the Romantics! That'll fix everything!" I guess there may have been more snark there than necessary. I guess I just want to throw out there the possibility that Literary Studies has a problem with respect to perception, accessibility, and utility that is at a lower, more fundamental, level. If people in Literary Studies are unwilling to accept this fundamental issue as a problem, unwilling to start addressing it in earnest, well, there is little that can be done to help them.