PLL is a peer-reviewed generalist journal of literary criticism published quarterly at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Contact: [email protected]
@pensandpoison In some countries, Dostoyevsky is assigned reading in high school. Some US high schoolers read Crime and Punishment. Are they all pretentious? Nonsense. Anti-intellectualism disguised as anti-elitism.
@paul_jkrause I don't think there is an obligation to like Hamlet the best. I prefer Othello and Richard II (though this one is a history, technically).
@lacherbauer I believe a separation of Northern and Southern Illinois was recently on the ballot. Obviously, the ballot was in the South. The North has a hard time looking past the Quad Cities. Even Springfield is too far.