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Does Literary Studies Have a Future?
An assessment of the current state and future of literary studies in the United States, this text challenges the view that literary classics must be relevant to our immediate …
Desire and Its Discontents
Desire and Its Discontents
Challenging the imperialism of desire in contemporary academic discourse Goodheart confronts a crucial strain of utopianism in modern thought and literature. This utopianism is the …
Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities
In recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of …
Holding the Center
Politicians and pundits often scorn polarization and compromise—the intransigence of the former and the feebleness of the latter—without suggesting an alternative way. …
Novel Practices
An important debate in modern literary criticism concerns the exact relationship between the ancient epic and the novel. Both the epic and the most ambitious modern novels are …
ModERNisM AND THE CRiTiCAL SpiRiT
Complaints about the decline of critical standards in literature and culture in general have been voiced for much of the twentieth century. These have extended from F.R. Leavis's …
The Skeptic Disposition
Eugene Goodheart examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation, arguing that the targets of deconstructive suspicion are …
Great Expectations
This title includes in-depth critical discussions of Charles Dickens' novel. ""Great Expectations"", one of Dickens' finest novels in terms of writing and construction, tells the …
The Skeptic Disposition In Contemporary Criticism
Eugene Goodheart's remarkably compact and penetrating analysis examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation. Originally …
The State of Our Disunion
The US Constitution resists centralizing authority by granting equal power to the three branches of government, as well as the individual states. The risk inherent in the …
Confessions of a Secular Jew
What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience …