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Literature: An Embattled Profession
Carl R. Woodring
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Description for Literature: An Embattled Profession
Hardback. In the tradition of Ruskin and Arnold, here's a witty, elegant essay on the contemporary academy by a renowned teacher, scholar, and former administrator. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; HBTB; JNK; JNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Delving into the hotly debated issues surrounding the relevance of the humanities in today's society, this spirited and engaging book analyzes the history and current status of literary study in America. Carl Woodring-who played a central part in organizing Columbia University's Society of Fellows in the Humanities, which oversees the core program devoted to monumental works of civilizations and art-casts an astute eye on the culture wars, chastising both the radicals who have jettisoned humanism and the conservatives who reject any challenge to prevailing tastes. After examining the history of cultural, political, and commercial influences on literary study in North ... Read more
Delving into the hotly debated issues surrounding the relevance of the humanities in today's society, this spirited and engaging book analyzes the history and current status of literary study in America. Carl Woodring-who played a central part in organizing Columbia University's Society of Fellows in the Humanities, which oversees the core program devoted to monumental works of civilizations and art-casts an astute eye on the culture wars, chastising both the radicals who have jettisoned humanism and the conservatives who reject any challenge to prevailing tastes. After examining the history of cultural, political, and commercial influences on literary study in North ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231115223
SKU
V9780231115223
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Ref
99-1
About Carl R. Woodring
Carl Woodring is Woodberry Professor Emeritus of Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books, including Politics in English Romantic Poetry, Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, and Nature Into Art: Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Britain. He is the editor of Table Talk in the Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Columbia History of British Poetry, and, with James ... Read more
Reviews for Literature: An Embattled Profession
An investigative and practical treatise on the state of the humanities.
John Axcelson, Columbia University The Wordsworth Circle Woodring eloquently shows how philosophical divisiveness combined with dwindling economic resourses has created upheaval in today's litearture departments.
Ellen Sullivan Library Journal Woodring... happily resists the temptation to pen a polemical culture-wars screed. Instead, he combines a short history of ... Read more
John Axcelson, Columbia University The Wordsworth Circle Woodring eloquently shows how philosophical divisiveness combined with dwindling economic resourses has created upheaval in today's litearture departments.
Ellen Sullivan Library Journal Woodring... happily resists the temptation to pen a polemical culture-wars screed. Instead, he combines a short history of ... Read more