http://www.geekologie.com/2011/01/youve_got_to_be_kidding_me_sch.php
http://english.osu.edu/administration/syllabi/
Ohio State University professor Amanpal Garcha has apparently decided all students taking English 261 Honors: Introduction to Fiction need to read that godforsaken, awful literary vomit so ignorantly called a "book" by Stephanie Meyer.
I am appalled by this! Twilight is a piece of censored. I don't care what the millions of Edward Cullen fangirls say. Twilight is nothing more than a genre-ruining trash bag of words.
To quote an excerpt from the class's syllabus: "we will also explore how these texts, like much other fiction, try to create particular reading experiences, as they push us to consider the nature and importance of literary imagination and the way fiction’s seductiveness is tied to other potentially dangerous attractions"
Literary imagination? Fiction's seductiveness? Here's a classic riposte from The Oatmeal.
I don't care if the gist of that segment of the class turns out to be learning why Twilight sucks. There are some things that are just so inherently horrible that you... Leave. Them. Alone. Period.
Oh hey, Garcha's email is in the syllabus. Who wants to send angry but civil emails?
[edit]
This was two years ago, apparently, so I guess you can put all this in past tense. Regardless, still an outrage. Furthermore, the syllabus could still be in current iterations of the class, as evidenced by why the syllabus is two years outdated... (no updates)
[double edit]
Gosh, I sure wish I could read dates
Still outraged.
[triple edit]
Sense. I don't make any.
http://english.osu.edu/administration/syllabi/
Ohio State University professor Amanpal Garcha has apparently decided all students taking English 261 Honors: Introduction to Fiction need to read that godforsaken, awful literary vomit so ignorantly called a "book" by Stephanie Meyer.
I am appalled by this! Twilight is a piece of censored. I don't care what the millions of Edward Cullen fangirls say. Twilight is nothing more than a genre-ruining trash bag of words.
To quote an excerpt from the class's syllabus: "we will also explore how these texts, like much other fiction, try to create particular reading experiences, as they push us to consider the nature and importance of literary imagination and the way fiction’s seductiveness is tied to other potentially dangerous attractions"
Literary imagination? Fiction's seductiveness? Here's a classic riposte from The Oatmeal.
I don't care if the gist of that segment of the class turns out to be learning why Twilight sucks. There are some things that are just so inherently horrible that you... Leave. Them. Alone. Period.
Oh hey, Garcha's email is in the syllabus. Who wants to send angry but civil emails?
[edit]
This was two years ago, apparently, so I guess you can put all this in past tense. Regardless, still an outrage. Furthermore, the syllabus could still be in current iterations of the class, as evidenced by why the syllabus is two years outdated... (no updates)
[double edit]
Gosh, I sure wish I could read dates
Still outraged.
[triple edit]
Sense. I don't make any.