Children's literature enrollment up the wazoo!

Many Princeton students are dying to unravel the incestuous subtext of their favorite children’s stories. After SCORE opened to seniors this week, over 200 members of the class of 2010 signed up for ENG335: Children’s literature. Professor William Gleason has taken on this course, last taught in the fall of 2006 by Professor Emeritus Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher. As of now, there are 369—the sexual subtext of that number is curious, given the content of the course—upperclassmen signed up, making it the course with the highest enrollment so far (ITA319: The Literature of Gastronomy lags behind with an unremarkable 150 students). We expect many sophomores and freshmen will join the bandwagon next week. If the spring class is anything like its predecessor, it will corrupt the innocence of most classical children’s stories by positioning them as tales of incest, pedophilia, etc. One reviewer on Point said of the course, “The only drawback is that it could ruin some of your favorite childhood stories as apparently most of these tales are all about repressed incestuous desires.”If this doesn’t concern you, join what is sure to be a major source of Princeton academic culture.