"Mice and Men" is written clearly and simply, is about topics which teenagers find relevant, and is short enough for almost all of them to manage to read. The ending is very powerful.
Gove is an elitist moron. He's trying to destroy English Lit as a subject. He's too stupid even to realise that.
I have no particular love for Steinbeck (which could be because I've never read him) and I don't mind the syllabus being changed around, but I'm not happy about the determining factor being Michael Gove's personal taste.
Sounds as if English Literature is going to be taught according to the same narrow-minded criteria I was taught Literature in Sweden in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Whereas I find it logical starting with Swedish texts in Sweden (and hating Strindberg -with two exceptions- as much as someone did Shakespeare) it was as if the Swedes kept pretending there was little of interest outside that country´s borders. I imagine a generation growing up on Mankell thinking "this is literature".
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(Although I am getting the feeling that Steinbeck is more in vogue in Britain than in the US at the moment.)
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Gove is an elitist moron. He's trying to destroy English Lit as a subject. He's too stupid even to realise that.
Angry, moi?
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Whereas I find it logical starting with Swedish texts in Sweden (and hating Strindberg -with two exceptions- as much as someone did Shakespeare) it was as if the Swedes kept pretending there was little of interest outside that country´s borders.
I imagine a generation growing up on Mankell thinking "this is literature".