I haven’t read the article yet, but this is certainly happening. I’m kind of okay with it. All the liberal arts are slowly merging together into one field, and that’s really for the best, because treating any one type of art as completely independent from all others is becoming harder and harder to do.

I predict that our children will be taught The Wire & Charles Dickens in the same class, and no one will blink an eye. That will be amazing. Literature hasn’t been our dominant artform for quite some time.

camiwillknow:infoneernet:givemesomethingtoread:

During the last four decades, a well-publicized shift in what undergraduate students prefer to study has taken place in American higher education. The number of young men and women majoring in English has dropped dramatically; the same is true of philosophy, foreign languages, art history, and kindred fields, including history.