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Great Books : My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible
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- 9780684809755
- Book Title
- Great Books : My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Référence
- Topic
- Bibliographies & Indexes, General, Books & Reading
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 27.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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At the age of forty-eight, film critic David Denby, dissatisfied with his life within the media bubble, went back to Columbia University and took again the two famous courses in Western classics (Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization) required of all students--courses he first took in 1961. In recent years, collections of literary and philosophical masterpieces such as those taught in these courses have been reviled by the left as oppressive and exclusionary and adored by the right as bulwarks of patriotism. Denby, the film critic for New York magazine, wanted to dispel these cliches and to confront the books in their naked power; he wanted to find the self he had lost in a daze of media images. In Great Books, Denby lives the common adult fantasy of returning to school with some worldly knowledge and experience of life. A gifted storyteller, he leads us on a glorious tour--by turns eloquent, witty, and moving--through the works themselves and through his experiences as a middle-aged man among freshmen. He recounts his failures and triumphs as a reader and student (taking an exam led to a hilarious near-breakdown). He celebrates his rediscovery or new appreciation of such authors as Homer, Plato, the biblical writers, Augustine, Boccaccio, Hegel, Austen, Marx, Nietzsche, and Virginia Woolf. He re-creates the atmosphere of the classroom--the strategies used by a remarkable group of teachers and the strengths and weaknesses of media-age students as they grapple with these difficult, sometimes frightening works. And all year long he watches the students grow and his own life and memories break out of hiding. The result is an extraordinarily engaging blend ofcriticism, reporting, autobiography, and cultural commentary, a book about self-discovery. Denby offers a nonprofessor's look at life on campus; he addresses the vexing questions of political correctness and relativism, and he suggests that a larger crisis surrounds the teaching of the humanities. A liberal defending the canon, Denby places literature in its revolutionary role as the source of powerful stories--the most powerful stories that we tell about ourselves. For the reader who once read these works, the book is a brilliant reprise; for the reader unfamiliar with them, Great Books offers an irresistible introduction. By the end, the great works are revealed again in their power to disturb and give pleasure.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0684809753
ISBN-13
9780684809755
eBay Product ID (ePID)
490344
Product Key Features
Book Title
Great Books : My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Bibliographies & Indexes, General, Books & Reading
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Literary Criticism, Référence
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
27.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Cb245.D44 1996
Table of Content
Contents IntroductionReading ListsFIRST SEMESTER1. Homer I2. SapphoInterlude One3. Plato I4. Homer IIInterlude Two5. Plato II6. Sophocles7. AristotleInterlude Three8. Aeschylus and EuripidesInterlude Four9. Virgil10. The Old Testament11. The New Testament12. Augustine13. MachiavelliInterlude Five14. Hobbes and Locke15. ExaminationWinter BreakSECOND SEMESTER16. Dante17. Boccaccio18. Hume and KantInterlude Six19. Montaigne20. Rousseau21. Shakespeare22. Hegel23. Austen24. Marx and Mill25. NietzscheInterlude Seven26. Beauvoir27. Conrad28. WoolfEpilogueAppendix: Earlier Reading ListsSelected BibliographyIndex
Lccn
96-018634
Dewey Decimal
909/.09812
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
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