eyes of eyes and all that.


Mar 14th at 12PM / via: oldtimefriend / op: sabino / 604 notes
But for most students, especially undergraduates, the appeal of English has never had much to do with its scholarly objectives. Students who turn with real engagement to English do so almost always because they have had the mysterious and irreducibly private experience—or at least some intimation of it—of receiving from a work of literature “an untranslatable order of impressions” that has led to “consummate moments” in which thought and feeling are fused and lifted to a new intensity.  - The Decline and Fall of Literature NOVEMBER 4, 1999 Andrew Delbanco;http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1999/nov/04/the-decline-and-fall-of-literature/?page=2

But for most students, especially undergraduates, the appeal of English has never had much to do with its scholarly objectives. Students who turn with real engagement to English do so almost always because they have had the mysterious and irreducibly private experience—or at least some intimation of it—of receiving from a work of literature “an untranslatable order of impressions” that has led to “consummate moments” in which thought and feeling are fused and lifted to a new intensity. 

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The Decline and Fall of Literature

NOVEMBER 4, 1999

Andrew Delbanco;http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1999/nov/04/the-decline-and-fall-of-literature/?page=2

(Source: sabino)


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