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

Altieri, Charles

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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810109158 ISBN 13: 9780810109155

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1991

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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