[ SECRET POST #3182 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3182 ⌋

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Re: OP

[dethtoll]

Okay I know I'm late to the party on this because I'm just waiting for today's post, but holy crap you suck. Most of the "classics" insisted on by American academia are either stuffy and quite far removed from the realities of the timeperiod they were written in, written in prose that has not aged well for modern language, or were really just plain shit. And nearly all of them were the "trashy" popular lit of their time. Very little in the curriculum changes over the years, and very few books written after 1920 are actually put on a syllabus except in particularly specifically themed classes. (I took a "modern literature" class once where the most recent book was Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" which was fucking terrible, and Hamsun was a Nazi-symp so fuck him anyway.) There's a surprising lot of other authors and works of the period that for one reason or another simply get forgotten about.

Does that make me white trash, that I don't particularly like these Victorian/Edwardian-era monstrosities of literature, handed down through tradition to be foisted on a modern audience that deserves better and gets very little educational or cultural value from a collection of books academia considers important but has not seen a meaningful update since the 1950s? If so, then white trash I'll gladly be.

(Note that I'm not really talking about Homer or Shakespeare here -- more specifically I'm talking about works from about 1800 or so to the 1920s. Aside from Shakespeare, it's this period that the most common choices for academic literature draw from.)