Canon / Degredation Is Not For Today's Students

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...the first time, she expects at the back of her mind that somehow the professors will expand her mind with new and exhilarating ideas. That in some way, she will learn something that will lead her to some type of utopian knowledge. Yet, as Barbara Hernstein Smith writes in "The Canon as Cultural Evaluation," this student will most likely be subjected to "labeled," "pre-classified" and "pre-interpreted" ideas embodied within the literary canon (Smith 96). Whether the canon is useful or is not useful in this context can be debated. Is it meant to have the legitimate goal of teaching the student the means for transcending a similar situation, or is it merely in existence to recommend to academicians the appropriate literature upon which to base their analyses? Is there a transcendent value in literature itself, or only to the professors teaching it? If so, the value is only aesthetic and "dismissable" after graduation. In this case, it has no enduring value to the student unless that student is a student of literature. Because the canon is replete with ideas that are "intimidating, coercive, and otherwise socially...

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