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The war against the intellect : episodes in the decline of discourse / Peter Shaw.
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TextPublication details: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 1989.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xx, 181 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 1587292181
- 9781587292187
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
- Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Litt�erature am�ericaine -- Histoire et critique -- Th�eorie, etc
- Critique -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecle
- �Etats-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e si�ecle
- HISTORY
- Criticism
- Intellectual life
- United States
- 1900-1999
- 973.92 19
- E169.12 .S47 1989eb
Contents:
Action note: [1.] The American heritage: The American heritage and its guardians -- Ezra Pound on American history -- [2.] Literary criticism: The decline of criticism -- The politics of deconstruction -- Feminist literary criticism -- [3.] American literature: Literary scholarship and disparaging American culture -- Civilization's malcontents: responses to Typee -- [4.] The decline of standards: Plagiarism and the literary conscience -- The demotion of man -- The dark age of the humanities -- Epilogue: The academic assault on Allan Bloom.
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