{"id":8245,"date":"2012-09-20T11:29:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=8245"},"modified":"2012-09-20T11:29:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:29:35","slug":"cultural-notes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/cultural-notes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helen Rittelmeyer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Yale English department is a good example. In the directory for tenured and tenure-track faculty, \u201cMarxist literary theory\u201d is listed by five professors among their fields of interest, \u201cgender and sexuality\u201d by nine, and \u201ccolonial and postcolonial\u201d by 11, or a quarter of the 44 professors. In the graduate student directory, however, the numbers for those subjects are one, three, and a fat goose egg. That\u2019s quite a statistical drop-off, considering that grad students outnumber professors nearly two to one. The topics favored instead by these future scholars are Romanticism (six), Victorian literature (five), Milton (seven), and, oddly enough, religious literature (also seven). Honorable mentions include \u201cBiblical exegesis,\u201d \u201cconversion narratives,\u201d and \u201cMiddle English devotional, visionary, and anchoritic writing\u201d\u2014 they\u2019re not just reading the Bible, they\u2019re reading monks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Professor Mondo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t get on Facebook without seeing people mocking various religions. However, the adherents of these faiths aren\u2019t rioting, burning, or killing anyone \u2014 nor would they be tolerated if they did. However, the message we\u2019re sending is that rioting works. The Islamists riot, and our government (and its media waterbearers) cheerfully throw the speakers who give offense under the bus. Apparently, the Mormons aren\u2019t smashing enough windows or setting enough fires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Robbo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helen Rittelmeyer: The Yale English department is a good example. In the directory for tenured and tenure-track faculty, \u201cMarxist literary theory\u201d is listed by five professors among their fields of interest, \u201cgender and sexuality\u201d by nine, and \u201ccolonial and postcolonial\u201d by 11, or a quarter of the 44 professors. In the graduate student directory, however, … Continue reading “Cultural notes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-28Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}