Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts (Norton Paperback) - Couverture souple

Shattuck, Roger

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393321118 ISBN 13 : 9780393321111

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Synopsis

With Candor and Perversion, Roger Shattuck has written the most complete assessment of the poxes that threaten our Western literary heritage. With incisive analysis, he elucidates the nature of intellectual craftsmanship, defends art's undeniable moral component, and, faced with an academic world shattered by theory, laments how extra-literary politics have grown increasingly dominant, now attempting to eliminate the very category of literature. Whether commenting on Foucault, Pulp Fiction, Georgia O'Keeffe, V.S. Naipaul, or the survival of a core tradition in the humanities, Shattuck presents a stirring synthesis of the principles and values by which we can live together as a nation finally at peace with its diversity. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a T.L.S. Notable Book of 1999.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roger Shattuck, author of Forbidden Knowledge and Proust's Way, has won the National Book Award. He lives in Vermont.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393321118
• ISBN 13: 9780393321111
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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