Liberal Education and the Canon: Five Great Texts Speak to Contemporary Social IssuesCamden House, 1994 - 293 Seiten An educationalist argues for the traditional literary canon and its relevance to contemporary social issues. Liberal Education and the Canon offers an argument for maintaining the traditional literary canon of the West as the centrepiece of a liberal arts education, from the perspective of a liberal, feminist, mainstream academic administrator. Laura Ford argues that to equate the great texts of the Western tradition with conservatism is to confuse the ideology of the texts; she undertakes to rebut the allegation of obsolescence by showing the prevalence of manycontemporary liberal themes in the traditional canon. |
Inhalt
Note on Sources | 1 |
Introduction | 7 |
Sexual Harassment | 42 |
Notes | 58 |
Homophobia | 101 |
63 | 176 |
The Right to Die | 179 |
97 | 215 |
The Death Penalty | 219 |
101 | 261 |
Conclusion | 263 |
Works Cited | 271 |
283 | |
286 | |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Liberal Education and the Canon: Five Great Texts Speak to Contemporary ... Laura Christian Ford Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1994 |