Reorientations
Subtitle: Critical Theories and Pedagogies
Contributors: Bruce Henricksen (Editor); Thais E Morgan (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780252016882
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Education / General; Literary Criticism; Critical theory; Criticism; Literature; Study and teaching; Education
First sentence: Feminist criticism, rooted in the civic and intellectual unrest of the 1960s, poses a radical challenge to the liberal arts academy, perhaps the most radical since Petrarch and his "umanista" insisted that the "trivia"-the disciplines of manner and value (rhetoric, logic, and grammar)-should take educational precedence over the quadrivium-the quantitative abstractions of geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music.