{"id":8374,"date":"2010-02-21T04:12:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T08:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=8374"},"modified":"2010-02-21T04:12:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T08:12:07","slug":"quote-of-the-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/02\/21\/quote-of-the-day-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/02\/imposter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8375\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/02\/imposter.png\" alt=\"imposter\" width=\"474\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/02\/imposter.png 740w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/02\/imposter-300x126.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <em>The American Scholar<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanscholar.org\/the-decline-of-the-english-department\/print\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Decline of the English Department&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>What are the causes for this decline? There are several, but at the root is  the failure of departments of English across the country to champion, with  passion, the books they teach and to make a strong case to undergraduates that  the knowledge of those books and the tradition in which they exist is a human  good in and of itself. What departments have done instead is dismember the  curriculum, drift away from the notion that historical chronology is important,  and substitute for the books themselves a scattered array of secondary  considerations (identity studies, abstruse theory, sexuality, film and popular  culture). In so doing, they have distanced themselves from the young people  interested in good books.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The American Scholar, &#8220;The Decline of the English Department&#8221;: What are the causes for this decline? 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