From: Emailaaronainsley@countermail.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:56:15 -0400, Wilford Dumont wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:54:41 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>>>> You will have to talk to Victor Dix about Allen Bloom at UC, I hear he   
   >>>>>>>> was   
   >>>>>>>> a terror. :o)   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Dr. Bloom was a superior educator, a Great Text advocate. Funny enough,   
   >>>>>>> it   
   >>>>>>> was one of his ideas which drew me to Harry Potter and that was the   
   idea   
   >>>>>>> of   
   >>>>>>> the shared text. As far as I can see, Harry Potter is the shared text   
   >>>>>>> universally.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Universally and unilaterally regardless of educational background.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> No way. What about English majors?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I see "unilaterally" challenges you.   
   >>   
   >>> Story goes that Dr. Bloom almost always asked his English literature majors   
   >>> what was their shared text. They rarely had one in the post modern era.   
   >>   
   >> It used to be the Bible but I don't know of but a few who have read it   
   >> end to end these days.   
   >   
   > Pre-1960 there were a couple of others that were part of the social   
   > noir.   
      
   How about Animal Farm or 1984, there has to be something every Eng Lit   
   major has read.   
      
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