Politically incorrect guide to - english and american lite

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Kantor Klappentext The Politically Incorrect GuideT to English and American Literature exposes the PC professors and takes you on a fascinating tour through our great literature-in all its politically incorrect glory. Included: a syllabus and how-to guide to give yourself the English lit education you were denied in school. Zusammenfassung 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

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Kantor
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2006
• EAN: 9781596980112
• ISBN: 978-1-59698-011-2
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Politically Incorrect Guides (; The Politically Incorrect Guides; Politically Incorrect Guides (
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies