Candor and perversion  -  Roger Shattuck

literature, education, and the arts

KORTE INHOUD

An urgent cry for meaning in a world where theory has often usurped substance, Candor and Perversion illuminates the world of twentieth-century literature. In this volume, eminent National Book Award-winning critic Roger Shattuck takes up the cudgel to affirm literature as a central field of study and personal reward. With incisive analysis, he explores the nature of intellectual craftsmanship in a society rampant with anti-intellectualism and pretension. Shattuck argues that American literary studies have ...
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1999 Uitgever: W.W. Norton 415 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0393048071 ISBN-13: 9780393048070