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The humanities and the dream of America

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English
Pages
256

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The humanities and the dream of America
2011, The University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: the humanities as a foreign language
Beneath and beyond the "crisis in the humanities"
Roots, races, and the return to philology
Between humanity and the homeland: the evolution of an institutional concept
The next big thing in literary study: pleasure
Gold mines in Parnassus: thoughts on the integration of professional and liberal education
Melancholy in the midst of abundance: how America invented the humanities
The depths of the heights: reading conrad with America's soldiers.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Chicago

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
001.3071/173
Library of Congress
AZ503 .H37 2011, AZ503.H37 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24566961M
ISBN 10
0226316971, 0226316998
ISBN 13
9780226316970, 9780226316994
LCCN
2010018450
OCLC/WorldCat
612349267

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