The Maddening Degradation of the Teaching of English
Fortunately for me, I graduated before the new direction arrived at State. Who was this departmental chairman?Quote:
The trouble erupted first at NC State in 1984, where a new departmental chairman announced a new direction Marxist deconstructionism. Trendy, hip. Old ideas about teaching English were to be dumped in favor of "progressive" ones.
The contagion spread to Duke with the arrival of Stanley Fish. Miller writes, "Backed by other hotshot recruits, Dr. Fish set about to make the department over in his own imagesmug, despotic, and punitive when colleagues challenged his claim that 'literature has no intrinsic merit.'" Perhaps that has something to do with the steady decline in English majors over the years.
UNC and Wake Forest have similarly fallen to the deconstructivist hordes.