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Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

This reminds me of a story that Cockburn told about one of his interns at The Nation. He was excited to learn that she was a Lit major at someplace like Oberlin. He asked her about her favorite class and she said a seminar in Austen. What'd you think of Mansfield Park, he asked. — PolitiTweet.org

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Posted Feb. 25, 2021

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Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

That approach would have saved me a lot of agonizing hours in my Joyce seminar, instead of crawling page by page down the cacophonous corridors of Finnegan's Wake... — PolitiTweet.org

Students shouldn’t have to read primary *or* secondary texts. The job of the professor is to profess one’s knowledg… https://t.co/bSKyg3YAVW

Posted Feb. 25, 2021

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She said, "Oh, I've never read Mansfield Park. We didn't actually read Austen in class, but criticism of her work." Alex called me and said, "Jeffrey, it's not our world anymore or anything like it." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 25, 2021