This Terry Eagleton paragraph

[Jerome Park]

is clever. The rest of the essay is a bit cranky and tired, says nothing we
want or need to read about the death of the university. But I like Terry
and ....



Hungry for their fees, some British universities are now allowing students
with undistinguished undergraduate degrees to proceed to graduate courses,
while overseas students (who are generally forced to pay through the nose)
may find themselves beginning a doctorate in English with an uncertain
command of the language. Having long despised creative writing as a vulgar
American pursuit, English departments are now desperate to hire some minor
novelist or failing poet in order to attract the scribbling hordes of
potential Pynchons, ripping off their fees in full, cynical knowledge that
the chances of getting one’s first novel or volume of poetry past a London
publisher are probably less than the chances of awakening to discover that
you have been turned into a giant beetle.

read it here:

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Slow-Death-of-the/228991/
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