A frank statement of a grave problem—and a good read.
“Leaving Literature Behind” by Bruce Fleming in The Chronicle Review 2008-12-19
We’ve made ourselves into a priestly caste: To understand literature, we tell students, you have to come to us. Yet professionalization is a pyrrhic victory: We’ve won the battle but lost the war. We’ve turned revelation into drudgery, shut ourselves in airless rooms, and covered over the windows.
[from A&LD]
