To the layperson, [literary theory] seems to be pretentious and irrelevant. It may be replacing the liberal-humanist 'conventional wisdom' of exclusive criticism with something more democratic, but it often seems to be replacing one set of arbitrary values with another, and that other is elitist. -- [Peter Hunt]
The Department of English is now accepting submissions for the following Excellence in First-Year Composition Awards.
Deadline:
April 13, 2007???