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Did you ever have a college English professor who wrote good literature?
Posted on 8/21/22 at 5:49 pm
Posted on 8/21/22 at 5:49 pm
...as opposed to weird psycho-sexual traumatic literature?
Had an Honors Literature professor who had a published collection of her essays and poems detailing her sexual escapades. Everything was "c*ck this" and "c*ck that."
Needless to say, no college prof writes tech thrillers about stealth subs or dinosaur theme park islands.
Had an Honors Literature professor who had a published collection of her essays and poems detailing her sexual escapades. Everything was "c*ck this" and "c*ck that."
Needless to say, no college prof writes tech thrillers about stealth subs or dinosaur theme park islands.
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Posted on 8/21/22 at 5:51 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Stephen Gresham at Auburn taught fiction writing and wrote pretty gnarly stories about southern gothic, dark fantasy shite.
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Posted on 8/21/22 at 5:51 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Yes, and he was one of the best story tellers I've ever known. I think he still performs at storytelling festivals and such every now and then. I'm pretty sure he retired from teaching.
Posted on 8/21/22 at 5:51 pm to UndercoverBryologist
English professors are some of the most pretentious dick heads alive and no, from what I read that my professors wrote they were intentionally trying to come up with bullshite.
Posted on 8/21/22 at 5:53 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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Did you ever have a college English professor who wrote good literature?
those who cannot do teach so they can pretend they know how to do it
Posted on 8/21/22 at 5:53 pm to Pooturd
I’m an English professor, and I can say that we are full of shite.
It’s a lot of puffing smoke.
It’s a lot of puffing smoke.
Posted on 8/21/22 at 5:55 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Those that can do, those that can’t teach…..
Posted on 8/21/22 at 5:57 pm to Finstrumentalist
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I’m an English professor,
Probably just a PhD candidate who likes to tell undergrads you’re a prof.
Posted on 8/21/22 at 6:09 pm to UndercoverBryologist
If they could write good literature they would be wealthy authors.
Steven King knocks out a novel in a weekend.
John Grisham writes stories with no ending.
The bar is pretty low for bestselling authors.
Posted on 8/21/22 at 6:18 pm to StringedInstruments
Had a class with Malcolm Shuman who was in the Anthropology Dept. He wrote a few novels; read one of them and it wasn’t bad.
I’m sure he’s retired by now; is probably in his early 80s.
I’m sure he’s retired by now; is probably in his early 80s.
Posted on 8/21/22 at 6:19 pm to Tigerbythetale
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Steven King knocks out a novel in a weekend. John Grisham writes stories with no ending.
Wasn’t King a one-time high school teacher and Grisham a Mississippi state representative? (For the Those who can, DO crowd.)
Posted on 8/21/22 at 6:19 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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essays and poems
Posted on 8/21/22 at 6:27 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Only if you count "C" on my transcript as good literature.
Posted on 8/21/22 at 6:33 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Better not get any folks in here bashing English Lit.
I got a BA in English and everyone says I make the best fries at Arby’s. So crispy
I got a BA in English and everyone says I make the best fries at Arby’s. So crispy
Posted on 8/21/22 at 6:37 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Janet Lowery taught an interesting literature class in 1990. It was called, Obsessive Characters in Contemporary Fiction.
Studied, Phillip Roth, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Carver , and a story called Spanking The Maid. The course lasted only one semester but I enjoyed reading sexual defunctional stories.
Studied, Phillip Roth, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Carver , and a story called Spanking The Maid. The course lasted only one semester but I enjoyed reading sexual defunctional stories.
This post was edited on 8/21/22 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 8/21/22 at 6:38 pm to sweetwaterbilly
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I got a BA in English and everyone says I make the best fries at Arby’s. So crispy
Meh, most English Lit majors I knew, who didn’t go into teaching, either came from money or married into money and the degree was just the one hurdle they had to jump before Uncle So-and-So gave them an automatic management position in the family business right out of college.
It’s a lot of privileged kids delaying maturity for 4 years. Edit: The degree was just a very good metric to make sure they had the minimal reading comprehension level to both read and write reports.
I do pity the poor kids who majored in it who now either have to teach or flip burgers.
This post was edited on 8/21/22 at 6:41 pm
Posted on 8/21/22 at 8:08 pm to UndercoverBryologist
None of those things applied to me but I was awful at math and science, so opted for English. I do pretty well but in hindsight I would majored in something more practical. I got a master’s in something equally as useless
Posted on 8/21/22 at 8:12 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Do I even want to see pics? I don’t think I do. Reminded me of Mr. Garrison’s erotic novel.
Posted on 8/21/22 at 8:14 pm to UndercoverBryologist
No, but I did have an English prof who told the class that most actors weren't very bright.
He was correct.
He was correct.
Posted on 8/21/22 at 8:17 pm to UndercoverBryologist
My English teacher senior yr of high school came from a very well known all boys private school. I think he thought all the public schools kids were retarded or something. First thing we had to every class was to underline nouns and circle verbs on a newspaper article he gave us.
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