An entire seminar on postmodernism--including lots of deconstruction--was offered at my school. Sigh.
There's one professor at Kenyon who is really, really, really into the Freud stuff. She was actually my advisor; I never took a class with her, but I hear they were all excessively Freudy. Good, but whoa. That said, I ended up using a lot of that kind of repressed Victorian stuff in an essay about The Turn of the Screw I wrote for my big final comps exam, so I was glad a friend of mine had taken that class and could report to me on it.
And yes, you couldn't pay me enough to get a graduate degree in English Lit.
I'm with you. Oof. I imagine at some point in the next few years I'll get an MLS/MLIS, but I really doubt an English Lit. grad degree will ever come my way. Ack.
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Date: 2006-06-03 03:33 pm (UTC)There's one professor at Kenyon who is really, really, really into the Freud stuff. She was actually my advisor; I never took a class with her, but I hear they were all excessively Freudy. Good, but whoa. That said, I ended up using a lot of that kind of repressed Victorian stuff in an essay about The Turn of the Screw I wrote for my big final comps exam, so I was glad a friend of mine had taken that class and could report to me on it.
And yes, you couldn't pay me enough to get a graduate degree in English Lit.
I'm with you. Oof. I imagine at some point in the next few years I'll get an MLS/MLIS, but I really doubt an English Lit. grad degree will ever come my way. Ack.