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Bitter Scrolls
Peter Heinegg
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Description for Bitter Scrolls
Paperback. This book is a broad survey of our 'sacred texts,' both Holy Writ and secular masterpieces, whose canonical status often exempt them from hardnosed, commonsense criticism. A frank look at this literature is necessary and reveals a stunning combination of bias and blindness toward women. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
Bitter Scrolls is a broad survey of our "sacred texts," both Holy Writ (Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Qur'an) and secular masterpieces, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the work of William Butler Yeats and D.H. Lawrence, whose canonical status often exempts them from the sort of hardnosed, commonsense criticism that we uniformly apply to contemporary literature and art. A frank look at this literature reveals a stunning combination of bias and blindness toward women. Acknowledging this would, in any case, be painful and depressing; but confronting it in some of our greatest minds-Homer, Aeschylus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, ... Read more
Bitter Scrolls is a broad survey of our "sacred texts," both Holy Writ (Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Qur'an) and secular masterpieces, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the work of William Butler Yeats and D.H. Lawrence, whose canonical status often exempts them from the sort of hardnosed, commonsense criticism that we uniformly apply to contemporary literature and art. A frank look at this literature reveals a stunning combination of bias and blindness toward women. Acknowledging this would, in any case, be painful and depressing; but confronting it in some of our greatest minds-Homer, Aeschylus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761852889
SKU
V9780761852889
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About Peter Heinegg
Peter Heinegg is a professor of English at Union College, critic, translator, and essayist. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University.
Reviews for Bitter Scrolls
Bitter Scrolls is an ambitious book by Peter Heinegg. Beginning with the Epic of Gilgamesh, and romping through history to end up with John Donne and even throwing in Marvin Gaye for good measure, Heinegg sets out to show the "toxicity of the texts" Heinegg succeeds in bringing to light in a very quick succinct fashion misogynistic texts that ... Read more