| | Days of Future Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Indeed, it is a bit ridiculous to ask English professors to gauge the future of their profession when so many of us are so unreliable when it comes to gauging the past. |
 | | The third, and most important for the future of English, is that graduate programs should, to the greatest degree possible, train students for the actual intellectual demands and pedagogical tasks of their profession. |
 | | The radical dereferentialization of the term is something of a historical irony, for (to mention another of my caveats) literary theory was once thought—back in the heady days of high structuralism—to be the device by which the field of literary studies would become internally coherent and self-reflective as well (see Culler). |
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