The humanities and the dream of America
By: Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780226316970; 9780226316994
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the humanities as a foreign language; title: Beneath and beyond the "crisis in the humanities"; title: Roots, races, and the return to philology; title: Between humanity and the homeland: the evolution of an institutional concept; title: The next big thing in literary study: pleasure; title: Gold mines in Parnassus: thoughts on the integration of professional and liberal education; title: Melancholy in the midst of abundance: how America invented the humanities; title: The depths of the heights: reading conrad with America's soldiers.