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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... language. These days English professors seem to be teaching anything and everything but classic English Literature—from “gender theory” to Freud to “Latino/a popular culture.” PC English professors are busy replacing the “dead white ...
... language. These days English professors seem to be teaching anything and everything but classic English Literature—from “gender theory” to Freud to “Latino/a popular culture.” PC English professors are busy replacing the “dead white ...
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... you figure out where you want to go next, but no survey can possibly be exhaustive. There's an almost infinite variety of wonderful literature written in our language—and of life-changing lessons that xviii Introduction.
... you figure out where you want to go next, but no survey can possibly be exhaustive. There's an almost infinite variety of wonderful literature written in our language—and of life-changing lessons that xviii Introduction.
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... language Beowulf was written in—Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon)—was, until quite recently, part of the ... languages. It was spoken by the barbarian Germanic peoples, known collectively as the AngloSaxons, who had conquered and ...
... language Beowulf was written in—Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon)—was, until quite recently, part of the ... languages. It was spoken by the barbarian Germanic peoples, known collectively as the AngloSaxons, who had conquered and ...
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... language. Students of English literature (even if they didn't plan to become specialists in Old English poetry) used to learn to read Anglo-Saxon. By studying the development of the English language over time, they also used to learn ...
... language. Students of English literature (even if they didn't plan to become specialists in Old English poetry) used to learn to read Anglo-Saxon. By studying the development of the English language over time, they also used to learn ...
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... Gillian R. Overing, Language, Sign, and Gender in Beowulf (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), 105. eeeeeeeeeee tribes who overran the Roman Empire. It is by no. 17 Old English Literature.
... Gillian R. Overing, Language, Sign, and Gender in Beowulf (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), 105. eeeeeeeeeee tribes who overran the Roman Empire. It is by no. 17 Old English Literature.
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