| The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature Contributor(s): Kantor, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1596980117 ISBN-13: 9781596980112 Publisher: Regnery Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: Kantor takes readers on a fascinating tour through great literature in all its politically incorrect glory. She includes a syllabus and a guide to the English literature education most people were denied in school. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 820.9 |
| LCCN: 2006030031 |
| Series: Politically Incorrect Guides (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 7.3" W x 8.96" (1.07 lbs) 278 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |