← Back to list

Rejected Community College English Literature Classes

Why is the administration afraid of the youth learning about the history of meddling in pop culture?

Darrin Walters in Jane Austen’s Wastebasket · 2026-06-04 12:01 · 121 claps · 1.1 min read
#humor #satire #literature #academia #culture
Open on Medium ↗
Wiki topics: LIT · Literature & Writing EDU · Education & Learning CUL · Culture & Media 🎮 · Gaming 😂 · Humor & Satire 📺 · Media · General

Rejected Community College English Literature Classes

Pending appeals from adjuncts who may also be your barista or budtender.

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/low-light-photography-of-books-1301585/

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/low-light-photography-of-books-1301585/

  1. “Deep Dickens — Logical Phallusies in Victorian England.”
  2. “The Old Man and the Semen — Themes of Aging and Impotency in Hemingway.”
  3. “Strap-on-Upon-Avon — Exploring the Bard’s Butch Tropes.”
  4. “From Longfellow to Balzac and Beyond — A Tainted Journey.”
  5. “The Hound and the Furry — Cosplay in Faulkner’s South.”
  6. “The Unreliable Narrator in George Eliot, or Why You Can Never Trust a Woman with Two First (Man’s) Names.”
  7. “Chaucer? Damn Near Killed Her! — Deconstructing Medieval Misogyny.”
  8. “Hold My Caulfield” — Heroic Boasting and Narratorial Poor Choices.”
  9. “Booty is Truth; Truth Booty — Reading Keats in a Post-Kardashian Age.”
  10. “Nom-Fiction and Oedipal Edibles — Special Topics in Food and Literature.”
  11. “You Say Bildungsroman, I Say Synecdoche. Let’s Cofeve the Whole Thing Off! — Distinguishing Literary Devices from Gibberish” (Previously offered under the title: “Idioms for Idiots”)
  12. “One Flew Over the Cuck’s Nest — From Nurse Ratched to Pete Hegseth: A Literary Taxonomy of Aggressively Insecure Men.”
  13. “The Taming of the Shrew; The Turn of the Screw; Scooby-Doo and Shaggy Too — A History of Meddling in Literature and Pop Culture.”
  14. “Goodbye, Columbus; Hello Indigenous Peoples! — A Politically-Correct Reading of Phillip Roth.”
  15. “Leaves of Grass with Grass — Let’s All Just Get High and Read Walt Whitman.”

메타데이터
post_id
e52784f86ea7
slug
rejected-community-college-english-literature-classes-e52784f86ea7
url
https://medium.com/jane-austens-wastebasket/rejected-community-college-english-literature-classes-e52784f86ea7
canonical_url
https://medium.com/jane-austens-wastebasket/rejected-community-college-english-literature-classes-e52784f86ea7
author_url
https://medium.com/@darrin.walters
status
ok
fetched_at
2026-06-15 20:49:13