English lit as a discipline has pretty strongly repudiated the discipline of "close reading" (and the "New Criticism" that buttressed it; https://en.wikipedia.o

English lit as a discipline has pretty strongly repudiated the discipline of "close reading" (and the "New Criticism" that buttressed it; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Criticism) in favor of whatever else it is that English professors now do in classes, so it's not surprising that... > The competent readers in our study... constituted 38 percent (or 32 of the 85) of our subjects Seems like there's a strong case for moving English 101 type classes, which are required and very heavily subsidize the existence of English departments, into Communications or elsewhere.