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Canons and Consequences: Reflections on the Ethical Force of Imaginative Ideals - Softcover

Charles Altieri (author)

 
9780810109155: Canons and Consequences: Reflections on the Ethical Force of Imaginative Ideals

Synopsis

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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Review

"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"

About the Author

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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