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I think he's unhappy about this: "I suspect you will have to search high and low to find them on a university syllabus, so comprehensively have their reputatio
by a0-prw 5y ago
I think he's unhappy about this:
"I suspect you will have to search high and low to find them on a university syllabus, so comprehensively have their reputations been trashed for political reasons."
- jfengel 5y agoOr alternatively, people just don't care about his favorite mid-20th-century authors. People keep writing great books, and not everything introduced to the "canon" gets to stay there. It's not politics. It's just taste and fashion. It helps that some of the current taste and fashion is "Hey, how about we read some books not written by dead white men?" That's not so much "politics" as "there's only so much space on the syllabus".