Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts (Norton Paperback) - Softcover

Shattuck, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393321118 ISBN 13: 9780393321111

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Synopsis

With Candor and Perversion, Roger Shattuck has written the most complete assessment of the poxes that threaten our Western literary heritage. With incisive analysis, he elucidates the nature of intellectual craftsmanship, defends art's undeniable moral component, and, faced with an academic world shattered by theory, laments how extra-literary politics have grown increasingly dominant, now attempting to eliminate the very category of literature. Whether commenting on Foucault, Pulp Fiction, Georgia O'Keeffe, V.S. Naipaul, or the survival of a core tradition in the humanities, Shattuck presents a stirring synthesis of the principles and values by which we can live together as a nation finally at peace with its diversity. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a T.L.S. Notable Book of 1999.

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Review:

"He excels at articulating obvious truths in fresh and palatable ways." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Roger Shattuck is again the polymath who leaves you roused to think about those things you don't want to think about. And, with gratitude, need to." -- Nadine Gordimer, The Los Angeles Times

Synopsis:

In a passionate plea for a return to true literary studies in the U.S., the author complains that politics and theory are choking the study of literature and offers a powerful vision of the nation's literary and philosophical heritage that challenges current trends and notions. Reprint.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0393321118
• ISBN 13: 9780393321111
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432