{"id":14245,"date":"2010-07-24T00:05:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T04:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=14245"},"modified":"2010-07-24T00:05:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T04:05:41","slug":"linda-hutcheon-oh-the-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/24\/linda-hutcheon-oh-the-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Hutcheon, &#8220;Oh, the Humanities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/hutcheon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14247\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/07\/hutcheon.jpg\" alt=\"hutcheon\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linda Hutcheon&#8217;s post &#8220;Oh, the Humanities&#8221; at <em>The Mark <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarknews.com\/articles\/1888-oh-the-humanities\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reason given for one of these cuts \u2013 that Comparative Literature has been so successful that every department now does that same theoretical and comparative work, and thus the centre is no longer needed \u2013 echoes, or perhaps parodies, Yale comparatist Haun Saussy\u2019s famous lament about the institutional weakness and yet the great intellectual strength of comparative studies in <a href=\"http:\/\/jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu\/ecom\/MasterServlet\/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801883804&amp;qty=1&amp;viewMode=3&amp;loggedIN=false\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization<\/em><\/a>, the 2004 report of the American Comparative Literature Association. But the negative implications of one of Saussy\u2019s sobering conclusions are worth considering: \u201cWe may all be comparatists now \u2013 and for good reason \u2013 but only with a low common denominator.\u201d In intellectual terms, this is hardly something to be proud of supporting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Hutcheon&#8217;s post &#8220;Oh, the Humanities&#8221; at The Mark here. 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