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Candor and perversion : literature, education, and the arts / Roger Shattuck.
LIBRA Special PN52 .S53 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shattuck, Roger.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- French literature--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Education, Higher--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- United States.
- Arts--Study and teaching.
- Arts.
- Literature--Theory, etc.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 415 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2000.
- Summary:
- Roger Shattack offers here an array of provocative ideas to reaffirm literature as a central field of study and personal reward. With incisive analysis, he elucidates the nature of intellectual craftsmanship, defends art's moral component, and laments our culture's drift toward both anti-intellectualism and philistine pretension. Whether commenting on Flaubert, Foucault, or Pulp Fiction, Shattuck presents a stirring, humane synthesis of the principles and values by which we can live together as a nation finally at peace with its diversity.
- Contents:
- I Inteliectual Craftsmanship
- 1. Nineteen Theses on Literature 3
- 2. Perplexing Lessons: Is There a Core Tradition in the Humanities? 9
- 3. American Education Against Itself 19
- 4. Education: Higher and Lower 24
- 5. How to Read a Book 36
- 6. The Spiritual in Art 43
- 7. How We Think at the Movies 54
- 8. Life Before Language: Nathalie Sarraute 67
- 9. Second Thoughts on a Wooden Horse: Michel Foucault 73
- 10. Art at First Sight 81
- 11. Radical Skepticism and How We Got Here 88
- 12. From The Swiss Family Robinson to Narratus Interruptus 95
- 13. Teaching the Unteachable: Kipling, Proust, Nietzsche & Co. 101
- 14. The Alibi of Art 110
- II A Critic's Job of Work
- Tracking the Avant-Garde in France
- 15. The Social Institutions of Modern Art 135
- 16. Manet, the Missing Link 146
- 17. Unlikely Pen Pals: George Sand and Gustave Flaubert 157
- 18. Sara Bernhardt, the Sacred Monster 161
- 19. Yuppies Along the Seine: The Impressionists 172
- 20. Living by Words: Mallarme 179
- 21. The Present Place of Futurism 190
- 22. Early Picasso: Mailer's Version 198
- 23. Captions or Illustrations?: Braque's Handbook 211
- 24. The Story of Hans/Jean/Kaspar Arp 233
- 25. Cocteau, Native Son of Paris 239
- 26. Confidence Man: Marcel Duchamp 244
- 27. The Last Cause (An Experimental Play) 262
- 28. From Aestheticism to Fascism 276
- America, Africa, and Elsewhere
- 29. An American Roman-Fleuve: The Beulah Quintet 285
- 30. "The Great American Thing": O'Keefee and Stieglitz 293
- 31. Candor and Perversion: Man Ray 308
- 32. Born-Again African: Leopold Senghor 324
- 33. A Masterpiece from Senegal 344
- 34. Blank and White: Illuminating Octavio Paz 350
- 35. Arthur Miller's Account of Himself 355
- 36. Naipaul on the American South 362
- 37. A Poet's Stories: W. S. Merwin 372
- 38. Quantum Tales: Renata Adler 379
- 39. Scandal and Stereotypes on Broadway: The New Puritanism 386.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393321118
- 9780393321111
- OCLC:
- 48484217
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