Sentence examples for lit majors from inspiring English sources
Dwan is a compelling performer, and though "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is overindulged among earnest lit majors, it sounds momentous coming off her tongue.
It even has potential crossover appeal with YA fiction fans and aging lit majors.
For the lit majors in the crowd, you can pat yourself on the back for catching the references to the works of Anton Chekhov, the seminal Russian playwright, sprinkled throughout the proceedings, but the story and characters play whether you know or care about these tidbits or not.
Kind of like comp lit majors, or faded rock stars.
One sure victim of all of this, however, is the major-equals-vocation concept of college, which holds that rocket scientists build rockets, econ majors and M.B.A.s meddle with money, and lit majors boast defensively of the value of art over commerce, or else go around grumbling about their useless degrees.
"When I started acting in Bombay, everyone's first reaction was – What's a Lit major from Harvard doing in films?
Fine for some, but Anna – an English Lit major with a part-time job in a hardware store – is never set up as the type to be seduced by riches.
(The play within the play here sometimes reads as a parody of the McDonagh school of dramaturgy.) But you don't have to be an Irish lit major to revel in Mr. Walsh's depiction of the folie à trois lived out on a daily basis by Dinny (Denis Conway), the one-play playwright, and his grown-up sons, Sean Tadhgg Murphy and Blakee (Garrett Lombard).
I am a former English Lit major, a writer, and a speaker.
Having been trained as a Comp Lit major in college, I was concerned that we might read too much into the words on the label.
