[Borges]

Should modern Lit be taught at all? It’s obviously difficult to determine what’s worthwhile without the benefit of historical hindsight. What sort of waiting period should there be? 50 years? I’ve heard 100 once and find it amusing that T.S. Eliot would just be eligible.

[miss marmelstein]

Can you please go back to weeping over the death of Roger Ebert and leave me alone?

[Sherman Logan]

Should modern Lit be taught at all? It’s obviously difficult to determine what’s worthwhile without the benefit of historical hindsight.

The least useful of all criteria is that of the race/gender of the author, followed closely by politically correct views.

Unfortunately, those are the two most important criteria presently used to determine "important" modern writers.

[Fiji Hill]

I took a course in modern German literature when I was a sophomore. Some of the stuff was off-the-wall, such as The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat... by Peter Weiss (1968), but it also included works by critically acclaimed writers such as Franz Kafka, Friedrich Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch and Thomas Mann.