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Great books / David Denby

By:

Denby, David

Publication details: New York : Simon & Schuster/ a Touchstone Book , 1997 , c1996.Description: 493p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780684809755

Subject(s):

Danby, David -- - Books and reading

DDC classification:

378.99 DEN

Contents:

My adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and other indestructible writers of the western world

Summary: Denby, a noted movie critic, goes back to his alma mater, Columbia University, to retake the LitHum and contemporary civilization courses he took in the early 1960s to determine whether the politically correct crowd is right about the great books being intellectually bankrupt. He decides the PCs are mostly all wet. "These books...speak most powerfully of what a human being can be. They dramatize the utmost any of us is capable of in love, suffering, and knowledge. They offer the most direct representation of the possibilities of civil existence and the disaster of its dissolution."

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	378.99 DEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		014147

My adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and other indestructible writers of the western world

Denby, a noted movie critic, goes back to his alma mater, Columbia University, to retake the LitHum and contemporary civilization courses he took in the early 1960s to determine whether the politically correct crowd is right about the great books being intellectually bankrupt. He decides the PCs are mostly all wet. "These books...speak most powerfully of what a human being can be. They dramatize the utmost any of us is capable of in love, suffering, and knowledge. They offer the most direct representation of the possibilities of civil existence and the disaster of its dissolution."

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