[Fwd: Re: Is Bad Writing Necessary?]

[jf noonan]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Dennis R Redmond wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Katha Pollitt wrote:
> 
> > language. Unlike the audience of either orwell or Adorno, grad students
> > are not really free to say Butler is turgid and barely
> > comprehensible--their job is to learn to write that way too! 
> 
> Oh yes we are free to say so, especially if the program is any good at
> all. Comp Lit programs in particular are places where critical
> thinking is cherished and respected, and where folks are expected to do
> the unexpected, if that makes any sense.

Really?  And can they later expect to find permanent jobs
afterwards?  (I really don't know the answer w.r.t. comp lit,
but in my experience in academia, you would not.)

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Joseph Noonan
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