Curious

In the past half century, the gap between the study of literature and the practice of writing literature has broadened. Knowing how to write no longer implies that one knows how to read (and vice versa). This fragmentation, although subtle in the modernist period, boastfully crescendoed in the postmodern period. That’s right. Past tense: crescendoed. We’ve hurdled past the height of postmodernism as we’ve known/studied it; and, whether you hold to the psuedo-modernism, micromodernism, altermodernism, fluidism, or network theory, the unraveling of deconstructionist ideals portends something entirely new for the profession. Curious? Marc Bousquet explores the ramifications for academia in his recent cross-posting at The Valve:

The Figure of Writing and the Future of English Studies