
Candor and Perversion
Literature, Education, and the Arts
Roger Shattuck(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 3. January 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-393-32111-1 (ISBN)
Description
With incisive analysis, he elucidates the nature of intellectual craftsmanship, defends art's undeniable moral component, and, faced with an academic world shattered by theory, laments how extra-literary politics have grown increasingly dominant, now attempting to eliminate the very category of literature. Whether commenting on Foucault, Pulp Fiction, Georgia O'Keeffe, V.S. Naipaul, or the survival of a core tradition in the humanities, Shattuck presents a stirring synthesis of the principles and values by which we can live together as a nation finally at peace with its diversity. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a TLS Notable Book of 1999.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
606 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-32111-1 (9780393321111)
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Person
Roger Shattuck, author of Forbidden Knowledge and Proust's Way, has won the National Book Award. He lives in Vermont.