A Student's Guide to Literature: Literature GuideIn a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read? Literary critic R. V. Young addresses these timely issues in this guide to Western literature and poetry. He demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and emotional horizons. Learn how great fiction and poetry are integral to a liberal education, and more than that, learn to love the classic works of literature again—or for the first time. |
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... imaginative revulsion at evil dressed up in bland excuse and political pretext . He will have an inner resistance to collaboration with the Edmunds he meets in the world , or to complicity with the Edmund who lurks within each of us ...
... imaginative revulsion at evil dressed up in bland excuse and political pretext . He will have an inner resistance to collaboration with the Edmunds he meets in the world , or to complicity with the Edmund who lurks within each of us ...
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... Imaginative literature puts enor- mous pressure on language , with the salutary result of ex- panding , enriching , and refining the resources of that most characteristic yet remarkable of human traits . It is difficult to conceive of ...
... Imaginative literature puts enor- mous pressure on language , with the salutary result of ex- panding , enriching , and refining the resources of that most characteristic yet remarkable of human traits . It is difficult to conceive of ...
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... imaginative . What can be said with certainty is that the study of literature re- quires the study of language , and that a knowledge of any DANTE ALIGHIERI ( 1265-1321 ) , was born in Florence , but exiled in 1301 as the result of a ...
... imaginative . What can be said with certainty is that the study of literature re- quires the study of language , and that a knowledge of any DANTE ALIGHIERI ( 1265-1321 ) , was born in Florence , but exiled in 1301 as the result of a ...
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