What does our literary past offer the present? Using his grasp of the full range of contemporary philosophical and literary stances, Charles Altieri in"Canons and Consequences" offers a fascinating dialogue between cultures which should influence how we understand the purposes of literary education."
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"Canons and Consequences is the most philosophically informed critique of current literary theory and defense of the idea of a literary canon to date." Gerald Graff"
Charles Altieri is professor of English at the University of Washington. He is the author of "Act and Quality: A Theory of Literary Meaning and Humanistic Understanding";"Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry"; and "Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry.""
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