The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American LiteratureSimon and Schuster, 2006/11/13 - 278 ページ What PC English professors don't want you to learn from . . . - Beowulf: If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us - Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness - Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive (it's just built into the nature of things) - Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin - Jane Austen: Most men would be improved if they were more patriarchal than they actually are - Dickens: Reformers can do more harm than the injustices they set out to reform - T. S. Eliot: Tradition is necessary to culture - Flannery O'Connor: Even modern American liberals aren't immune to original sin |
この書籍内から
検索結果1-5 / 89
ix ページ
... God's Plenty” Middle English poetry The politically incorrect world of the Middle Ages The Canterbury Tales vs. The Handmaid's Tale The dreary world of The Handmaid's Tale The fecundity of medieval art A pre-classical aesthetic In the ...
... God's Plenty” Middle English poetry The politically incorrect world of the Middle Ages The Canterbury Tales vs. The Handmaid's Tale The dreary world of The Handmaid's Tale The fecundity of medieval art A pre-classical aesthetic In the ...
4 ページ
... god cyning”2 (that was a good king), for example— that seem to jump off the page to remind you that Beowulf is, after all, written in an earlier incarnation of our own language. Students of English literature (even if they didn't plan ...
... god cyning”2 (that was a good king), for example— that seem to jump off the page to remind you that Beowulf is, after all, written in an earlier incarnation of our own language. Students of English literature (even if they didn't plan ...
9 ページ
... God) had not prevented that fate. But courage in Beowulf is not just something necessary for safety, like burglar alarms, vaccines, or paying your income taxes. Heroism is glorious; it's good in itself; it deserves praise. It's self ...
... God) had not prevented that fate. But courage in Beowulf is not just something necessary for safety, like burglar alarms, vaccines, or paying your income taxes. Heroism is glorious; it's good in itself; it deserves praise. It's self ...
12 ページ
... God's creation. The poet makes clear that Grendel represents the kind of evil you can read about in the Bible. He's ... God. Grendel's hostility to men is part of the eternal enmity of mankind's original Enemy. And in Beowulf's character ...
... God's creation. The poet makes clear that Grendel represents the kind of evil you can read about in the Bible. He's ... God. Grendel's hostility to men is part of the eternal enmity of mankind's original Enemy. And in Beowulf's character ...
16 ページ
... God gave Heremod power and glory, but he became violent toward his own people. As Hrothgar explains, prosperity isolates a man from the hardships that ordinarily keep men in check. The successful man enjoys unalloyed power and pleasure ...
... God gave Heremod power and glory, but he became violent toward his own people. As Hrothgar explains, prosperity isolates a man from the hardships that ordinarily keep men in check. The successful man enjoys unalloyed power and pleasure ...
他の版 - すべて表示
多く使われている語句
American literature Anglo-Saxon artists Battle of Maldon beauty Beowulf Canterbury Tales century characters Chaucer’s Christian civilization Coleridge comedies courtly love criticism culture dead white males death Donne Donne’s Dryden eeeeee eighteenth-century Eliot England English and American English literature Evelyn Waugh example Faulkner Faustus female feminist Flannery O’Connor gender God’s Handmaid’s Tale happiness heart Henry hero human nature husband Jane Austen Jane Austen’s novels John Johnson kind king Lady language literary lives man’s Marlowe Marlowe’s marriage Marxism medieval Milton modern moral Old English patriarchal PC English professors Piers Plowman poem poetry political Pope postmodernist religion religious Renaissance sexual Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Sonnets Shelley sonnet story T. S. Eliot teach there’s things traditional tragedy truth University viewed Western what’s who’s wife Wilde William William Faulkner woman women words Wordsworth writing wrote young