Gary Saul Morson

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Dr. Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas professor of the Arts and Humanities and professor of Slavic Languages at Northwestern University. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has won two awards for best book of the year, in comparative literature and in Slavic literatures.

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    4 Reasons Literature Needs to Be Saved From Its Teachers

     Gary Saul Morson
    “We read a lot of literature in high school,” a first-year student explained to me. “And that’s why I don’t like it.”  When I asked her what she had read and how it had been taught, she answered:  “‘Huckleberry Finn.’ It shows that slavery is wrong.” If you didn’t know that already, I thought, you…
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