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 |
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... Marxism, feminism, deconstruction, and bashing dead white males Postmodernist jargon: hideously ugly, mentally crippling Reality-denial as a critical stance What Literature Is For: “To Teach and Delight” What literature is really for ...
... Marxism, feminism, deconstruction, and bashing dead white males Postmodernist jargon: hideously ugly, mentally crippling Reality-denial as a critical stance What Literature Is For: “To Teach and Delight” What literature is really for ...
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... Marxist theory, or the history of ballet. You could be treated to an investigation of pornography through the ages. Or you might spend the semester watching foreign films. What is far too unlikely to happen is that you will be taught to ...
... Marxist theory, or the history of ballet. You could be treated to an investigation of pornography through the ages. Or you might spend the semester watching foreign films. What is far too unlikely to happen is that you will be taught to ...
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... (Marxism, “deconstruction,” or some other radical agenda) will be the real content of the course. Imagine that you've just arrived at Ivy University and discovered that your English class is being taught by a professor who takes the ...
... (Marxism, “deconstruction,” or some other radical agenda) will be the real content of the course. Imagine that you've just arrived at Ivy University and discovered that your English class is being taught by a professor who takes the ...
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... Marxism, feminism, and so forth. Study of the language Beowulf was written in—Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon)—was, until quite recently, part of the standard curriculum for serious students of English.1 Old English is closely ...
... Marxism, feminism, and so forth. Study of the language Beowulf was written in—Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon)—was, until quite recently, part of the standard curriculum for serious students of English.1 Old English is closely ...
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... Marxist professor Terry Eagleton among them. Here's Eagleton (the fellow who thinks Beowulf is irrelevant because heroism is passé) anticipating the long overdue, but still somehow inevitable, collapse of the capitalist system and ...
... Marxist professor Terry Eagleton among them. Here's Eagleton (the fellow who thinks Beowulf is irrelevant because heroism is passé) anticipating the long overdue, but still somehow inevitable, collapse of the capitalist system and ...
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