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This alternative way of reading is competing with traditional deep reading circuitry developed over several millennia. Should we be concerned? Does the inability to read deeply reflect a growing inability to think deeply? More: Kurup’s observation might sound far-fetched, but told about it, Wolf did not scoff. She offered more evidence: Several English department chairs from around the country have e-mailed her to say their students are having trouble reading the classics. They cannot read Middlemarch. They cannot read William James or Henry James, Wolf said. I can’t tell you how many people have written to me about this phenomenon. The students no longer will or are perhaps incapable of dealing with the convoluted syntax and construction of George Eliot and Henry James.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:20:01 +0000

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