Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 612
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ISBN-10 : 9781596986152
ISBN-13 : 1596986158
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Book Synopsis Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature by : Elizabeth Kantor

Download or read book Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature written by Elizabeth Kantor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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


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