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51 produkter
Reign of Ideology
Häftad, 1996
692 kr
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In The Reign of Ideology Goodheart presents a powerful, tenacious critique of the prevailing fixation on ideology in literary theory. Exposing the debilitating effects of much "ideology critique" -which seeks to reveal the effects of power, privilege, and interest underlying critical approaches to …
Does Literary Studies Have a Future?
Häftad, 1999
187 kr
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An assessment of the current state and future of literary studies in the United States, this text challenges the view that literary classics must be relevant to our immediate concerns. It also addresses the question of objectivity in humanistic study.
Pieces of Resistance
Häftad, 2005
654 kr
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Pieces of Resistance is a 1988 collection of Eugene Goodheart's essays and reviews written between 1960 and 1985. The book responds to the political, cultural, and literary changes expressed during this period by novelists, critics, and journalists. Goodheart's book is divided into three parts. The …
Pieces of Resistance
Inbunden, 1987
1489 kr
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Pieces of Resistance is a 1988 collection of Eugene Goodheart's essays and reviews written between 1960 and 1985. The book responds to the political, cultural, and literary changes expressed during this period by novelists, critics, and journalists. Goodheart's book is divided into three parts. The …
Skeptic Disposition
Deconstruction, Ideology, and Other Matters
Häftad, 2014
800 kr
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Eugene Goodheart examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation, arguing that the targets of deconstructive suspicion are fundamental humanistic values. "[This book] is a fair-minded, generous critique of the deconstructionist theories of …
Skeptic Disposition In Contemporary Criticism
Häftad, 2014
393 kr
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Eugene Goodheart's remarkably compact and penetrating analysis examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available …
Skeptic Disposition
Deconstruction, Ideology, and Other Matters
Inbunden, 2016
1751 kr
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Eugene Goodheart examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation, arguing that the targets of deconstructive suspicion are fundamental humanistic values. "[This book] is a fair-minded, generous critique of the deconstructionist theories of …
Skeptic Disposition In Contemporary Criticism
Inbunden, 2016
1700 kr
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Eugene Goodheart's remarkably compact and penetrating analysis examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available …
Confessions of a Secular Jew
A Memoir
Häftad, 2004
747 kr
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What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly secular world.The legacy bequeathed to Eugene Goodheart was a "progressive" secular Yiddish …
Modernism and the Critical Spirit
Häftad, 2000
876 kr
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Complaints about the decline of critical standards in literature and culture in general have been voiced for much of the twentieth century. These have extended from F.R. Leavis's laments for a "lost center of intelligence and urbane spirit," to current opposition to the predominance of radical …
Holding the Center
In Defense of Political Trimming
Häftad, 2017
747 kr
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Politicians and pundits often scorn polarization and compromise the intransigence of the former and the feebleness of the latter without suggesting an alternative way. Polarization, when opposing forces are equal or close to equal in strength, leads to stalemate. Compromise threatens to betray …
Mostly Grave Thoughts
On Mortality and Other Matters
Häftad, 2017
876 kr
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In this new collection, Eugene Goodheart, scholar of English literature, essayist, and public intellectual, reveals himself in a way that will interest readers already familiar with his expansive body of work as well as those new to his writing.Rising above the particular, the essays focus on …
Novel Practices
Classic Modern Fiction
Häftad, 2018
609 kr
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An important debate in modern literary criticism concerns the exact relationship between the ancient epic and the novel. Both the epic and the most ambitious modern novels are large-scale attempts to present a comprehensive view of the world through the experience of a representative hero. However, …
Confessions of a Secular Jew
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly secular world.The legacy bequeathed to Eugene Goodheart was a "progressive" secular Yiddish …
D.H. Lawrence
The Utopian Vision
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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The dominant view of D.H. Lawrence's work has long been that of F. R. Leavis, who confined Lawrence within an exclusively ethical and artistic tradition. In D.H. Lawrence: The Utopian Vision, Eugene Goodheart widens the context in which Lawrence should be understood to include European as well as …
Modernism and the Critical Spirit
Inbunden, 2018
2879 kr
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Complaints about the decline of critical standards in literature and culture in general have been voiced for much of the twentieth century. These have extended from F.R. Leavis's laments for a "lost center of intelligence and urbane spirit," to current opposition to the predominance of radical …
Cult of the Ego
The Self in Modern Literature
Inbunden, 2018
2879 kr
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Goethe once remarked that "every emancipation of the spirit is pernicious unless there is a corresponding growth of control." This remark may be taken as a motto for Eugene Goodheart's study of an aspect of the cultural history of the past two hundred years. In separate chapters on Rousseau, …
Cult of the Ego
The Self in Modern Literature
E-bok, 2018
1006 kr
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Goethe once remarked that "every emancipation of the spirit is pernicious unless there is a corresponding growth of control." This remark may be taken as a motto for Eugene Goodheart''s study of an aspect of the cultural history of the past two hundred years. In separate chapters on Rousseau, …
Cult of the Ego
The Self in Modern Literature
E-bok, 2018
1036 kr
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Goethe once remarked that "every emancipation of the spirit is pernicious unless there is a corresponding growth of control." This remark may be taken as a motto for Eugene Goodheart''s study of an aspect of the cultural history of the past two hundred years. In separate chapters on Rousseau, …
Modernism and the Critical Spirit
E-bok, 2018
1036 kr
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Complaints about the decline of critical standards in literature and culture in general have been voiced for much of the twentieth century. These have extended from F.R. Leavis''s laments for a "lost center of intelligence and urbane spirit," to current opposition to the predominance of radical …
Modernism and the Critical Spirit
E-bok, 2018
1013 kr
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Complaints about the decline of critical standards in literature and culture in general have been voiced for much of the twentieth century. These have extended from F.R. Leavis''s laments for a "lost center of intelligence and urbane spirit," to current opposition to the predominance of radical …
Novel Practices
Classic Modern Fiction
E-bok, 2019
702 kr
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An important debate in modern literary criticism concerns the exact relationship between the ancient epic and the novel. Both the epic and the most ambitious modern novels are large-scale attempts to present a comprehensive view of the world through the experience of a representative hero. However, …
Novel Practices
Classic Modern Fiction
E-bok, 2019
717 kr
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An important debate in modern literary criticism concerns the exact relationship between the ancient epic and the novel. Both the epic and the most ambitious modern novels are large-scale attempts to present a comprehensive view of the world through the experience of a representative hero. However, …
State of Our Disunion
The Obama Years
E-bok, 2017
765 kr
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The US Constitution resists centralizing authority by granting equal power to the three branches of government, as well as the individual states. The risk inherent in the separation of powers is that the absence of a spirit of compromise can lead to the disintegration of the union. Eugene Good …
State of Our Disunion
The Obama Years
E-bok, 2017
765 kr
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The US Constitution resists centralizing authority by granting equal power to the three branches of government, as well as the individual states. The risk inherent in the separation of powers is that the absence of a spirit of compromise can lead to the disintegration of the union. Eugene Good …
Mostly Grave Thoughts
On Mortality and Other Matters
E-bok, 2017
1036 kr
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In this new collection, Eugene Goodheart, scholar of English literature, essayist, and public intellectual, reveals himself in a way that will interest readers already familiar with his expansive body of work as well as those new to his writing. Rising above the particular, the essays focus on …
Mostly Grave Thoughts
On Mortality and Other Matters
E-bok, 2017
1013 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this new collection, Eugene Goodheart, scholar of English literature, essayist, and public intellectual, reveals himself in a way that will interest readers already familiar with his expansive body of work as well as those new to his writing. Rising above the particular, the essays focus on …
Holding the Center
In Defense of Political Trimming
E-bok, 2017
883 kr
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Politicians and pundits often scorn polarization and compromise—the intransigence of the former and the feebleness of the latter—without suggesting an alternative way. Polarization, when opposing forces are equal or close to equal in strength, leads to stalemate. Compromise threatens to betray …
Holding the Center
In Defense of Political Trimming
E-bok, 2017
864 kr
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Politicians and pundits often scorn polarization and compromise—the intransigence of the former and the feebleness of the latter—without suggesting an alternative way. Polarization, when opposing forces are equal or close to equal in strength, leads to stalemate. Compromise threatens to betray …
Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities
E-bok, 2018
901 kr
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In recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of biology and psychology, have set their sights on rescuing the humanities from the ravages of postmodernism. In this …
