The humanities and the dream of America /

The contents of this book cover beneath and beyond the 'crisis in the humanities', between humanity and the homeland, gold mines in Parnassus, melancholy in the midst of abundance, and much more.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Temas:
Humanities > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States.
Philology > United States > History.
Endowment of research > United States.
Philologie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Fondations de recherche > États-Unis.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
Endowment of research
Humanities > Study and teaching (Higher)
Philology
Geisteswissenschaften
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 military.

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