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Does Literary Studies Have a Future? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An assessment of the current state and future of literary studies in the United States, this text challenges the view that literary classics must be relevant to our immediate concerns. It also addresses the question of objectivity in humanistic study.
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The Skeptic Disposition In Contemporary Criticism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Eugene Goodheart's remarkably compact and penetrating analysis examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the... Læs mere
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Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly secular world
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Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made... Læs mere
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D.H. Lawrence: The Utopian Vision (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Provides a critical analysis of the ideological character of Lawrence's novels and essays, in particular the effect of his utopianism on his views of nature, myth, and... Læs mere
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Novel Practices: Classic Modern Fiction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An important debate in modern literary criticism concerns the exact relationship between the ancient epic and the novel
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Mostly Grave Thoughts: On Mortality and Other Matters (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this new collection, Eugene Goodheart, scholar of English literature, essayist, and public intellectual, reveals himself in a way that will interest readers already familiar with his expansive body of work as well as those new to his writing
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Holding the Center: In Defense of Political Trimming (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Politicians and pundits often scorn polarization and compromise the intransigence of the former and the feebleness of the latter without suggesting an alternative way
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Modernism and the Critical Spirit (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Complaints about the decline of critical standards in literature and culture in general have been voiced for much of the twentieth century
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Pieces of Resistance (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This collection of essays and reviews written between 1960 and 1985 are a deliberate response to the current, increasingly specialized forms of criticism.
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