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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't disagree with you, but why do we choose authors like Dickens or Shakespeare for this exercise? Is it not because the characters and themes in the works of these authors have become a part of our culture?
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Probably because those were the ones the teachers were taught when they were students.
Lots of things are done, uncritically, simply because that is the way they have been for decades.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdfX7ut8gw
There are plenty of things that are part of *modern* culture that don't even get consideration.