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The English Classroom
by
Record
staff
Facing greater pressure from old, wealthy alums who want results on both the
gridiron and in weighty academic discourse, the Yale Administration has gotten
both demands wrong and is now forcing our brilliant English professors to use
more "hands-on" course material for dumber-than-ever jocks. Please scoff at the
following combinations of English theory and fun classroom handouts:
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"It is the moment of non-construction, disclosing the absentation of
actuality from the concept in part through its invitation to emphasize,
in reading, the helplessness--rather than the will to power--of its fall
into conceptuality."
-Paul H. Fry, William Lampson Professor of English
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"In the language of 1798, terror has a precise and immediate and more
than personal resonance."
-David Bromwich, Professor of English
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"I
do not share the current esteem for the work of the late Sylvia Plath
who seems to me an absurdly bad and hysterical verse writer."
-Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of English
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"It's over, love. Look at me pushing fifty now / Hair like grave-grass
growing in both ears / The piles and boggy prostate, the crooked
penis..."
-J.D. McClatchy, Adjunct Professor of English
[Picture available in members section of
www.jdmclatchy.com] |
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