Posted by BDM on July 10, 1998 at 10:36:26:
Captain,
I don't have any major gripe about feminist. In fact, I applaud some of them (Naomi Wolf, for example). But I was distraught when a roomful of Banshees took over an Arthurian Legend course I was taking at NCState. Yeah, Arthur's court was patriarchal. I knew that going in. And don't get me wrong; the issue of male subjectivity of the females in the books and times should be addressed in such a course. But the topic consumed the course. Literature has become sociology and gender studies. What happened to the story and the words? Keelhauled, to make room for political forums. We must monitor or corrections. We must ask why we read the great works. Have we subverted the value of the books, so that we can reiterate past social inequities? As TS Eliot writes in "The Chorus to the Rocks," "Where is the life lost in living?"