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" The politically incorrect guide to English and American literature / "
Elizabeth Kantor
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BL
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602760
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b431979
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| Main Entry
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Kantor, Elizabeth
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The politically incorrect guide to English and American literature /\ Elizabeth Kantor
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, DC :: Regnery Pub. ;Lanham, MD :: Distributed to the trade by National Book Network,, c2006
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| Series Statement
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Politically incorrect guide
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xix, 278 p. ;; 23 cm
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9781596980112
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: 1596980117
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-260) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: Why This Book Is Needed -- What They Don't Want You to Learn from English Literature (An Introduction to the Canon, from Beowulf to Flannery O'Connor) -- Old English Literature: The Age of Heroes -- Beowulf: The hero and the poem -- The Dream of the Rood -- "This life on loan" -- The Battle of Maldon -- Medieval Literature: "Here Is God's Plenty" -- Middle English poetry -- The politically incorrect world of the Middle Ages -- The Canterbury Tales vs. The Handmaid's Tale -- The dreary world of The Handmaid's Tale -- The fecundity of medieval art -- A pre-classical aesthetic -- In the light of eternity -- Christianity and freedom -- Separation of church and state, medieval style -- The argument from authority -- The invention of chivalry -- The Renaissance: Christian Humanism -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- The tragedies -- The comedies -- The sonnets -- The Seventeenth Century: Religion as a Matter of Life and Death -- John Donne -- John Milton -- Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Age of Reason -- John Dryden -- Alexander Pope -- Jonathan Swift -- Samuel Johnson -- "The proper study of mankind is man"-or is it? -- The Nineteenth Century: Revolution and Reaction -- Revolutionary repeat -- Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Byron and the Shelleys -- Keats -- Jane Austen: Without a room of her own -- Celebrating "patriarchal values" -- Women who are bossy (and talk too much) -- Men who aren't patriarchal enough -- The benefits (to women) of "sexist" conventions -- Victorian literature -- Dickens -- The Twentieth Century: The Avant-Garde, and Beyond -- Decadents and aesthetes -- Modernism -- American Literature: Our Own Neglected Canon -- Big country, short attention spans -- The mystery of evil -- The possibility of escape -- Why we should still read Huckleberry Finn (despite the ugly racial epithets) -- Literature from the Deep South -- "A hillbilly Thomist" -- Why They Don't Want You to Learn about English and American Literature -- How the PC English Professors Are Suppressing English Literature (Not Teaching It) -- English professors teach anything and everything ... except English literature -- Why they don't want you to read English and American literature -- "Theory"-Marxism, feminism, deconstruction, and bashing dead white males -- Postmodernist jargon: hideously ugly, mentally crippling -- Reality-denial as a critical stance -- What Literature Is For: "To Teach and Delight" -- What literature is really for -- Which literature is truly great? -- Truth, beauty, and goodness -- How You Can Teach Yourself English and American Literature-Because Nobody Is Going to Do It for You -- How to Get Started (Once You Realize You're Going to Have to Read the Literature on Your Own) -- "Close reading" -- Reed's Rule -- What seems like an ordinary line of poetry -- The nuts and bolts of literary analysis -- The words themselves (what they mean, what they sound like, where they come from) -- A use for English grammar, after all -- Meter, verse forms, genres, and beyond -- Learn the Poetry by Heart-See the Plays-Gossip about the Novels (That's Just What Jane Austen Did) -- Learn the poetry by heart -- See the plays as often as you can-or, better yet, act in them -- Read the great novels, lend them to your friends, and gossip about the characters
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Citing declining coverage of classic English and American literature in today's schools, a primer challenges popular misconceptions while introducing the works of core masters such as Shakespeare, Faulkner, and Austen
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English literature-- History and criticism
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English literature-- Study and teaching
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American literature-- History and criticism
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American literature-- Study and teaching
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Political correctness-- United States
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PR83.K36 2006
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