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The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature by Elizabeth Kantor

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

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Narrator
James Adams
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Publish Date
1 January 2006
Run Time
8 hours 4 minutes
Format
Audiobook
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What to expect

These days, English professors prefer to teach anything and everything but classic English literature. They indoctrinate their students in Marxism and radical feminism, show them Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11, and teach them the "post-colonial literature" of South Asia. When they do teach a genuine work of English or American literature, they use it to propagandize against our "oppressive" Western culture.

What PC English professors don't want you to learn from:

–Beowulf: If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us

–Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness

–Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive—it's just built into the nature of things

–Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin

–Jane Austen: Most men would be improved if they were more patriarchal than they actually are

–Dickens: Reformers can do more harm than the injustices they set out to reform

–T. S. Eliot: Tradition is necessary to culture

–Flannery O'Connor: Even modern American liberals aren't immune to original sin

The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature takes you on a fascinating tour through our great literature—in all its politically incorrect glory—to give you the great literary education you were denied in school.

Critics Review

  • “A wise and sobering book that is required reading for anyone who cares about the future of the humanities.”

    Roger Kimball, co-editor and publisher, The New Criterion and publisher, Encounter Books

  • “Dr. Kantor emulates that great other Doctor, Johnson, in this regard: fools move her to indignation and pity, but beauty and wisdom steal her heart.”

    Anthony Esolen, professor of English, Providence College

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Details

Author
Elizabeth Kantor
Narrator
James Adams
Duration
8 hours 4 minutes
Release Date
1 January 2006
ISBN
9781481564854
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Genre
Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history and criticism

Synopsis

These days, English professors prefer to teach anything and everything but classic English literature. They indoctrinate their students in Marxism and radical feminism, show them Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11, and teach them the "post-colonial literature" of South Asia. When they do teach a genuine work of English or American literature, they use it to propagandize against our "oppressive" Western culture.What PC English professors don't want you to learn from:–Beowulf: If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us–Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness–Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive—it's just built into the nature of things–Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin–Jane Austen: Most men would be improved if they were more patriarchal than they actually are–Dickens: Reformers can do more harm than the injustices they set out to reform–T. S. Eliot: Tradition is necessary to culture–Flannery O'Connor: Even modern American liberals aren't immune to original sin The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature takes you on a fascinating tour through our great literature—in all its politically incorrect glory—to give you the great literary education you were denied in school.

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