Dissent Magazine - Arguing The World - Are English Departments Killing the Humanities? - - 0 views
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The focus of this post is not the thousand-and-one times told tale of how the corporatization of the university and state divestment from higher education has had a particularly disastrous impact upon humanities departments
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We can treat these realities as facts to be taken for granted.
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We might wonder if there are conditions of intellectual deprivation for which the institutional structures governing the humanities are partly to blame.
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An alternate take on the "future of the humanities" argument. This author proposes a revamped sort of literature study incorporating modern languages and a fervently international approach to literature, thought, and culture.
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This one skirts the edges of the digital humanities, by proposing a vision of future literature study. Explicitly digital projects could be useful for finding the international connections this author calls for.