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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... 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 to become specialists in Old ...
... 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 to become specialists in Old ...
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... king. Finally, fifty years later, Beowulf kills a dragon that is ravaging the Geatish countryside—but only with the help of a young kinsman; and Beowulf himself is killed in the accomplishment of this last great feat. The Geats burn ...
... king. Finally, fifty years later, Beowulf kills a dragon that is ravaging the Geatish countryside—but only with the help of a young kinsman; and Beowulf himself is killed in the accomplishment of this last great feat. The Geats burn ...
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... king on his return from Hrothgar's court, Hrothgar plans to patch up the Danes' feud with the Heathobards by giving his daughter in marriage to a Heathobard prince. Inevitably, as Beowulf predicts, Hrothgar's plan will end in disaster ...
... king on his return from Hrothgar's court, Hrothgar plans to patch up the Danes' feud with the Heathobards by giving his daughter in marriage to a Heathobard prince. Inevitably, as Beowulf predicts, Hrothgar's plan will end in disaster ...
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... king who rewards warriors with gold. But not everyone tries to know the truth. We can only guess what the Anglo-Saxons would have thought of the modern antiwar intellectual, but the Beowulf poet does address a similar phenomenon ...
... king who rewards warriors with gold. But not everyone tries to know the truth. We can only guess what the Anglo-Saxons would have thought of the modern antiwar intellectual, but the Beowulf poet does address a similar phenomenon ...
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... King of the Franks,6 that illustrates the almost unbridgeable gap the Germanic tribesmen had to reach across to accept the gospel. Clovis is said to have been much moved when he was first told the story of the Crucifixion. “If I had ...
... King of the Franks,6 that illustrates the almost unbridgeable gap the Germanic tribesmen had to reach across to accept the gospel. Clovis is said to have been much moved when he was first told the story of the Crucifixion. “If I had ...
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