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Why is English synonymous with literature within the usa? Bonfiglio contextualizes the emerging hegemony of English in the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose within the US within the first half 20th century.

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Some of the ancients maintained that the study of aesthetic writings should be entirely limited to the classical texts of Greece and Rome. The preservation of the past was championed in France by Boileau’s highly influential L’Art poétique (1674). In England, the quarrel took its name from Jonathan Swift’s The Battle of the Books (1704), which parodied the classical tradition. Swift extended the satire in Gulliver’s Travels (1726). 1057/9781137375544 The Lost Continent: Grammar and Philology  Book III is titled “The Voyage to Laputa” and satirizes the classical academy.

The dictionary defines littérature primarily as aesthetic writing (“Ensemble des œuvres écrites auxquelles on reconnait une finalité esthétique”). One may characterize this as a metonymy that has colonized the semantic field of the term literature: the aesthetic moved from a permutation or subset of literature to the essence of literature itself. 1057/9781137375544 A Tropology of Letters  the semantic field of aesthetics, poetry became reduced to its current meanings. Philology This is a term of great importance and contestation.

The catalogue from 1825 also lists lectures on French and Spanish literature. The catalog from 1830 was the first to list a requirement for the study of “modern languages,” which began in the sophomore year. The languages taught were French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and students selected freely among them. There were also lectures offered during the academic year on French, German, Italian, and Spanish literature. In 1849, the modern languages requirement became limited to French, which was required in the sophomore year.

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