This Terry Eagleton paragraph

[Dave Monroe]

http://chronicle.com/article/An-Emerging-Field-Deconstructs/130791/

http://chronicle.com/article/The-False-Promise-of/146549/

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> ....
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> 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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