Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393321111)

With incisive analysis, he elucidates the nature of intellectual craftsmanship, defends art's undeniable moral component, and, faced with an academic world shattered by theory, laments how extra-literary politics have grown increasingly dominant, now attempting to eliminate the very category of literature. Whether commenting on Foucault, Pulp Fiction, Georgia O'Keeffe, V.S. Naipaul, or the survival of a core tradition in the humanities, Shattuck presents a stirring synthesis of the principles and values by which we can live together as a nation finally at peace with its diversity. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a TLS Notable Book of 1999.

Author: Roger Shattuck
ISBN-10: 0393321118
ISBN-13: 9780393321111
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2000
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.48w x 1.03d