Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 17:39:14 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) From: terry goldie <tgoldie-AT-YorkU.CA> Subject: Re: comparative poco lit I often use Pooh as a source of wisdom, why not? Especially in reaction to one more attack which said that the problem with academe is the specialized critical language. If there is one thing Pooh shows is there are different modes of discourse and different wisdoms to get from them, if one just remains open to them. In my experience that openness remains the primary attitude and interest of graduate students in literary studies. The lament at lack of funds and mega-debt is constant and getting worse, with rising fees and--at least at my university--no comparable rise in income. Which is the reason the TA's (primarily graduate students) are on strike at York. The administration seems to believe that graduate students don't have to eat. I had few job prospects back in the seventies but my scholarship and a very easy TA job actually paid my expenses. That being said, I find very few PhD students today or in the past whose primary interest is the employment at the end. Unlike, for example, people in law school. terry Terry Goldie English Department York University North York, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 voice: 416-604-3670 fax: 416-736-5412 email: tgoldie-AT-yorku.ca --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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