Literature and the Conservative Ideal
Mark Zunac (Redaktør) Mark Bauerlein (Innledning) D. Marcel DeCoste (Innledning) Mary Grabar (Innledning) Thomas L. Jeffers (Innledning) Todd H. J. Pettigrew (Innledning) James Seaton (Innledning) Thomas W. Stanford III (Innledning) Barton Swaim (Innledning)
«Scholarship on conservative literary traditions, conservative approaches to literary analysis, and conservative writers has become increasingly rare in the Humanities. I welcome with more than ordinary gratitude the wisdom and moral balance of these otherwise silenced voices. »
Ruth Wisse, Harvard University
By examining the ways in which the conservative vision of the world informs certain modes of literary study and has been treated in various works of literature throughout the ages, this book seeks to recover conservatism as a viable, rigorous, intellectually sound method of critical inquiry. Les mer
Perhaps this book's greatest service is that it seeks to define conservatism in highly distinct contexts. Its authors collectively reveal that the conservative ideal lacks formulaic expression, and is thus more richly complex than it is often credited for. Conservatism is not easily defined, and by presenting such divergent expressions of it, the essays here belie the reductive generalizations so common throughout the academy. Ultimately, the conservative ideal may have much more in common with the stated goals of higher learning than has previously been acknowledged. Thus, while this book in no way seeks to directly apply conservatism to curricular matters, it does revive a competing vision of how knowledge is transmitted through art and history, while also affirming the ways in which literature functions as a forum for ideas.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Lexington Books
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781498512404
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 22 x 15 cm
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«Scholarship on conservative literary traditions, conservative approaches to literary analysis, and conservative writers has become increasingly rare in the Humanities. I welcome with more than ordinary gratitude the wisdom and moral balance of these otherwise silenced voices. »
Ruth Wisse, Harvard University