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points6 points  (3 children)       Though I get the sense that
you're a bit troll-y, I'll bite. I went to Columbia and post-
structuralists taught the single-author canonical classes that
you seem to think disappeared. Students of Derrida showed me
what was of value in the Western tradition, and though I can't
be certain, I don't believe they did so ironically.      You
seem to have a much bigger bug in your bonnet that has little to
do with English literature. While taking the core at Columbia, I
also took Latin classes and read many of the classics you seem
to prize in their "original" languages. I learned Old English. I
studied linguistics. Yet I also firmly believe that race,
gender, and class are integral to reading any text. I'm sorry,
but for a thousand reasons its demonstrable that their concerns
are not new or trendy. You can dismiss me as a charlatan or
something, but (and tho