- So can you get degree in literature without reading any books>
- English in its academic guise is one of those subjects which one can get away with doing badly on a scale unthinkable in physics, or economics, or even history, partly because successive ideologies of the discipline have maintained an investment in uncoupling it from the idea of a body of knowledge, so that it has developed a strong mood of resistance to fact.
- For similar reasons it is
more vulnerable than most, certainly than some of the sciences that literary
theorists sometimes like to think they are emulating, to being
factitiously politicised: Marxist or feminist readings of ‘Three Blind
Mice’ would be unlikely in a zoology course
Can you get a degree in English Literature without reading any books?
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