The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American LiteratureSimon and Schuster, 13/11/2006 - 278 páginas What PC English professors don't want you to learn from . . . - Beowulf: If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us - Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness - Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive (it's just built into the nature of things) - Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin - Jane Austen: Most men would be improved if they were more patriarchal than they actually are - Dickens: Reformers can do more harm than the injustices they set out to reform - T. S. Eliot: Tradition is necessary to culture - Flannery O'Connor: Even modern American liberals aren't immune to original sin |
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... traditional literary canon with the authors of '80s bestsellers that hit all the politically correct themes. Departments of English are staffed by professors dedicated to suppressing English literature,. xiii Introduction.
... traditional literary canon with the authors of '80s bestsellers that hit all the politically correct themes. Departments of English are staffed by professors dedicated to suppressing English literature,. xiii Introduction.
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... traditional loyalties (but that really has its home in modern totalitarian movements, including Marxism). And it's not because the “death-haunted” AngloSaxons had some kind of sick, “Goth”-style fascination with death and disaster. It's ...
... traditional loyalties (but that really has its home in modern totalitarian movements, including Marxism). And it's not because the “death-haunted” AngloSaxons had some kind of sick, “Goth”-style fascination with death and disaster. It's ...
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... are executed, feminists are exiled to the colonies to clean up radioactive waste, and ordinary Cosmo-girl types are, after a brutal reeducation, reduced to serving as “handmaids” in (otherwise) traditional families 27 Medieval Literature.
... are executed, feminists are exiled to the colonies to clean up radioactive waste, and ordinary Cosmo-girl types are, after a brutal reeducation, reduced to serving as “handmaids” in (otherwise) traditional families 27 Medieval Literature.
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... traditional families suffering from infertility. As a “handmaid,” a young woman is subjected to joyless and impersonal sex with the man of the household— in the presence of his wife, no less—for procreative purposes. To anyone who's ...
... traditional families suffering from infertility. As a “handmaid,” a young woman is subjected to joyless and impersonal sex with the man of the household— in the presence of his wife, no less—for procreative purposes. To anyone who's ...
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... traditional constraints the feminists try to frighten us with, whenever anyone questions whether feminism has been a net gain for human happiness: arranged marriage, wifely obedience, the husband's control of the marital property. But ...
... traditional constraints the feminists try to frighten us with, whenever anyone questions whether feminism has been a net gain for human happiness: arranged marriage, wifely obedience, the husband's control of the marital property. But ...
Índice
3 | |
References | 243 |
Index | 265 |
Back Cover | 285 |
Front Cover | 286 |
Title Page | v |
Copyright Page | vi |
Table of Contents | ix |
Introduction | xiii |
First Chapter | 3 |
References | 243 |
Index | 265 |
Back Cover | 285 |
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Página 76 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance : commits his body To painful labour, both by sea and land ; To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience, — Too little payment for so great a debt.
Página 72 - ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend; in which the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolick of another; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without...
Página 75 - I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels ; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything...
Página 134 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Página 132 - I never was attached to that great sect Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion...
Página 203 - I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
Página 203 - The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.
Página 85 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Página 94 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.