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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... civilization is the root of all evil. Why on earth would PC English professors want to help perpetuate it? The departments of English in our universities were established to preserve our literary and linguistic heritage and transmit it ...
... civilization is the root of all evil. Why on earth would PC English professors want to help perpetuate it? The departments of English in our universities were established to preserve our literary and linguistic heritage and transmit it ...
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... misery. If you could learn from our great literature to despise and fear Western civilization, the PC professors wouldn't have quit teaching it. Part I WHAT THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO LEARN FROM xix Why This Book Is Needed.
... misery. If you could learn from our great literature to despise and fear Western civilization, the PC professors wouldn't have quit teaching it. Part I WHAT THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO LEARN FROM xix Why This Book Is Needed.
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... civilization begins to fray among us, you can see the dynamics of the heroic age begin to reassert themselves—as in gang and drug-lord culture, where men risk death and kill for their honor. And we all depend on heroic virtues in our ...
... civilization begins to fray among us, you can see the dynamics of the heroic age begin to reassert themselves—as in gang and drug-lord culture, where men risk death and kill for their honor. And we all depend on heroic virtues in our ...
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... civilization of Christian Europe—was the eventual result of the encounter that the Anglo-Saxons and their Germanic cousins had with Christianity. We're the heirs of that civilization, in an unbroken line, never interrupted by a ...
... civilization of Christian Europe—was the eventual result of the encounter that the Anglo-Saxons and their Germanic cousins had with Christianity. We're the heirs of that civilization, in an unbroken line, never interrupted by a ...
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... civilization has seen—were backward- rather than forward-looking. In Beowulf, everything good is old. The best roads (the only ones that are actually paved) are the old Roman roads. The only kind of sword that's any good is an old one ...
... civilization has seen—were backward- rather than forward-looking. In Beowulf, everything good is old. The best roads (the only ones that are actually paved) are the old Roman roads. The only kind of sword that's any good is an old one ...
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