Jon,
Am I misreading you when I infer from the following that you're inclined to
"dispose of" Shakespeare (as you teach Zane Gray)?
Tim Romano


At 11:12 AM 2/13/03, Jon & Anne Weidler wrote:
>The "normal" (read white American) graduate students take
>classes side by side with their South Asian counterparts, and realize
>abruptly that some adjustments must be made to their own parochial (and
>often quite innocent, I feel I must add) preconceptions about global
>politics and migration and Caliban's structural role in  _The Tempest_.
>  This process responds to more than an intellectual desire to
>demonstrate adequate self-loathing, and very well might leave people
>asking , honestly, what was so undisposably great about the Great Books
>of the West.