It was like listening in on a college literature class where nobody had actually read the book.

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Why should you have to pass a college-level literature class if you want to be a state trooper?

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Take a literature class.

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He had been the English department chair, and taught one freshman class on Southern literature.

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As a novelist and screenwriter, I'm sometimes asked to speak to a class of film or literature students at a university.

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At the request of the provost he taught a class in ancient Greek literature in translation, sympathizing with students who found Thucydides impenetrable: The Modern Library edition has one map of the entire Hellenic world, with 180 labels on it.

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Taking an elective in college used to mean studying something you wanted to learn about but not necessarily major in: the mathematician who took a class in 19th century Russian literature or the French major who studied Biology 101.

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It can help explain why the so-called median American voter, a concept used in political science literature, seems so angry at this time, looking around for culprits behind the economic predicament of the American middle class.

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