By Robert Scholes
A severe examine the character and course of English stories in the US. It bargains an intervention in debates approximately academic and cultural values and pursuits, displaying how English got here to occupy its current position within the American academic method.
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Faculties have changed in similar ways. Along with these changes in the academic population have < previous page page_20 next page > < previous page page_21 next page > Page 21 come other changes, of which I shall enumerate just two that seem especially important: (1) English is now a foreign literature in a (relatively) familiar language. In the United States, American literature is assuming the central place among several Anglophone literatures, displacing the literature of England itself. The literature of this foreign country, England, now requires formal preparation in the background of English history and culture, just as the study of French literature requires the study of France.
But my main reason for citing him at such length is to remind you that the Nietzsche so often presented to us today as the great destroyer of concepts of truth and morality is based on a very selective reading of his work that ignores what Karen Carr has recently called "his constant appeal to health and sickness, strength and weakness, as criteria" (K. Carr, 50), to which I would add his indispensable and perpetual distinction between high and low, often to be read as a contrast between high culture and the culture of the "herd" that he despised.
In it he recounts the story of a conver- < previous page page_14 next page > < previous page page_15 next page > Page 15 sion leading from Philistine darkness to the kingdom of light. But the experience of becoming a preacher is couched in the language of businessobtaining a license to preach. This is the era of Bruce Barton, in which Christ was often thought of as a sort of Rotarian (as in James Joyce's story ''Grace"), but, once again, I do not think mockery of Phelps is going to be helpful. What is important here is that, for this representative figure of the professional high-water mark of English as a field of study, there is absolutely no tension between teaching and preaching.