My manifesto talks about the literary canon, and how I think it's serving to turn English study into a joke by rendering a good 90% of the shit we come up with through analyzing text completely worthless to anyone outside of English academia. I've kind of felt this way for a long time but always figured I was just kind of a jerk. Now that I'm really thinking about it, I'm starting to feel like I might be right (and also a jerk). Right now, it's just a gut feeling, but I actually feel a drive to go out and do some non-class-related research on how English is taught and what it does for society because I don't think it's doing everything it can.
This is a big deal for me, because I haven't really taken school seriously since the 6th grade. There is no good reason for me to have gotten into this university, and there certainly isn't any good reason for me to have not been expelled after every semester here. It's nice to be writing something that I feel is actually somewhat original and not be immediately failed.
Case in point: Victorian Culture. Guess what strategy I'm using to write this paper? Close reading and analysis of the words on the page, in essay format.
Fucking.
Yawn.
Also, why do I love sad songs?
ABOUT THE JERK WHO WRITES THIS POINTLESS CRAP
- David Paine
- Junior in English and Rhetoric at U of I, future librarian, only goal before death is to write The Great American Novel that will define our generation. Failing that, work in a steel mill and play blues harmonica.
3 comments:
Love the bluntness. Hmm, is that why everyone always says math and science are better than English?:P
Exactly - what the hell do we contribute?
i think you would like strata more if the lead singer was a chick.
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