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I welcome healthy discussion on the Story's role in shaping, sharpening, and healing minds (especially as we grow up and then grow older). At the very least, it
by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
I welcome healthy discussion on the Story's role in shaping, sharpening, and healing minds (especially as we grow up and then grow older). At the very least, it's a big change from the "I have empirical evidence that degrees in English and the people who major in it are absolutely worthless" threads/links that run through HN from time to time.
Remember, all, those great characters and classic tales you've ever read and heard/seen are spun by someone who studied the language and the past storytellers just as intently as a software engineer studied the merge and bubble sort.
- pyre 16y agoHow many great novelists were English majors?
- natnat 16y agoDavid Foster Wallace majored in English (and philosophy), and I think he's a great novelist. Most older novelists didn't study English because English literature wasn't considered a serious scholarly pursuit until fairly recently.
- muhfuhkuh 16y agoDouglas Adams, Stephen King, John Updike, Joseph Heller, JRR Tolkein. Among other notable storytellers: Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Danny Boyle.