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Lee Morrissey - Debating the Canon: A Reader from Addison to Nafisi - 9781403968180 - V9781403968180
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Debating the Canon: A Reader from Addison to Nafisi

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Description for Debating the Canon: A Reader from Addison to Nafisi Hardcover.
Over the past two decades, the debate over the 'Great Books' has been one of the key public controversies concerning the cultural content of higher education. Debating the Canon provides a primary-source overview of these ongoing arguments. Many of these contributions to this debate have achieved 'canonical' status themselves; through the focus on the canon, the full spectrum of approaches to literary studies can be seen in the essays. Therefore, this collection places the recent debate within a larger context of literary criticism's development of a canon, going back to the eighteenth century.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403968180
SKU
V9781403968180
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99-15

About Lee Morrissey
LEE MORRISSEY is Professor of English at Clemson University, USA.

Reviews for Debating the Canon: A Reader from Addison to Nafisi
"It would be hard for me to overestimate my enthusiasm for the extremely timely and useful book that Morrissey has put together...He has picked the best of the best-known contributions, and also strayed someway afield to bring in pieces that will enrich debate...I honestly can't think of one important piece in the canon debates that belongs in Morrissey's table of ... Read more

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