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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... Lancelot's guilty relationship with Guinevere offered some insight into the lives she and her peers were living. Like Lancelot, they had at their command opportunities beyond most people's xvii Why This Book Is Needed.
... Lancelot's guilty relationship with Guinevere offered some insight into the lives she and her peers were living. Like Lancelot, they had at their command opportunities beyond most people's xvii Why This Book Is Needed.
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... lives were defined by pride, fidelity, and violence, who measured themselves and one another by their valor in battle and their fierce loyalty to their own. The culture Tacitus described in his Germania has some unique features, but a ...
... lives were defined by pride, fidelity, and violence, who measured themselves and one another by their valor in battle and their fierce loyalty to their own. The culture Tacitus described in his Germania has some unique features, but a ...
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... lives: they were known as slaves. The virtues of the heroic age have always been necessary. Wherever and whenever civilization begins to fray among us, you can see the dynamics of the heroic age begin to reassert themselves—as in gang ...
... lives: they were known as slaves. The virtues of the heroic age have always been necessary. Wherever and whenever civilization begins to fray among us, you can see the dynamics of the heroic age begin to reassert themselves—as in gang ...
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... lives—and they'd be better off dead. The Beowulf poet is interested not just in who's brave and who's not, but also in who wants to tell the truth about these things, and who doesn't. The man who wants to speak the truth “in accordance ...
... lives—and they'd be better off dead. The Beowulf poet is interested not just in who's brave and who's not, but also in who wants to tell the truth about these things, and who doesn't. The man who wants to speak the truth “in accordance ...
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... live in cannot be taken for granted as the universal birthright of mankind. Professor Eagleton's assertion that the left's ... lives and the mental and moral attitudes of our intelligentsia. That prosperity should breed overweening pride ...
... live in cannot be taken for granted as the universal birthright of mankind. Professor Eagleton's assertion that the left's ... lives and the mental and moral attitudes of our intelligentsia. That prosperity should breed overweening pride ...
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