Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities

Ellis, John M.

ISBN 10: 0300069200 / ISBN 13: 9780300069204

Edité par Yale University Press, 1997

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Ellis, John M. LITERATURE LOST: SOCIAL AGENDAS AND THE CORRUPTION OF THE HUMANITIES New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 1997 FIRST EDITION NF/Fine 262pp. 8vo. Dust jacket shows little wear with light wear and bumping along the edges. Boards are clean but do have some damage to the front cover near the top left. Spine and corners are lightly bumped and worn. Previous owner wrote little check marks in pen in the margins of the book but they are almost unnoticeable. Text is otherwise clean and binding is strong. Overall book is in great shape.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities
• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300069200
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300069204
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

An analysis of the new regime in humanistic studies, this text considers the apparent weaknesses of notions that are currently fashionable in the humanities and speaks out against the orthodoxy that has installed race, gender and class perspectives at the centre of college humanities curricula.

Présentation de l'éditeur

In Literature Lost, John Ellis subjects the fashionable notions that now dominate college curricula in the humanities to a careful historical and logical analysis. The result is a devastating critique and a comprehensive rebuttal of the claims made for the reigning orthodoxy. "[Ellis is] not the first . . . to express dismay at [the extraordinary changes that have come over the teaching of the humanities in American universities]; what distinguishes him is the clarity of his perceptions, and his willingness not merely to deplore the new trends but-faithful to an academic tradition he believes to be in serious danger-to subject them to disinterested inquiry."-Frank Kermode, Atlantic Monthly "An eloquent, passionate plea for the 'wider world' to engage itself with academia and bring it to its senses, lest literature and the arts be trampled beyond recognition by the armies of the alienated professoriat."-Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "A thorough and masterfully rational study of the issues behind the conflict."-John W. Aldridge, Wall Street Journal "[An] exceptionally persuasive book . . . which ought to be required reading for any student about to enroll in a literature course."-Merle Rubin, Baltimore Sun