"The Problem With Specialization"
The problem with specialization is that it confines you to certain areas of the spectrum. This is a problem since most English Departments center their course offerings around the "coverage model," which suggests that students should be fully educated in the whole spectrum of literature. Specialization confines you to only certain authors and genres. Author David Easton describes specialization as "the Humpty Dumpty Problem." Humpty Dumpty, the egg of knowledge, sat on the wall. When he fell he broke into many pieces. In order to understand the way that highly presumable knowledge was originally sought, we need to put the pieces back together again.
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