The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature - Elizabeth Kantor Audiobook
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The study of literature is essential to preserving Western culture and transmitting it to future generations. Yet today’s English departments have come under the control of people who teach anything but the English and American literary classics. Even when the subject is Shakespeare or Faulkner, the professor’s own politics—Marxism, feminism, or some similar radical agenda—will be the real content of the course. Meanwhile, today’s politically correct professors are busy replacing the “dead white males” of the traditional literary canon with the authors of 1980s bestsellers that hit all the politically correct themes.
The result? Most of us are missing out on the many things worth learning from great literature. The solution? This handy guide, which teaches you what every well-educated American should know about our literary heritage—but through no fault of his own, probably doesn’t.
In “The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature”, Elizabeth Kantor, Ph.D.:
■ introduces you to the great stories, the delightful plays, the powerful poems that constitute the traditional “canon” of English literary classics
■ gives you the tools (formerly taught in English departments, now neglected by PC professors) that you need to enjoy this literature more intensely—and to learn from it in a way you can’t learn from anything else
■ empowers you to see through every variety of politically correct “literary theory”, such as “deconstruction”
■ explains the real purpose of studying English and American literature
■ demonstrates the necessity of literary study for the transmission of Western culture to the next generation
Lists at the beginning of each chapter include the literature discussed as well as other works that together add up to a curriculum for a complete self-taught survey of English and American literature. Whether you’re currently in college, or just someone who wasn’t really taught English literature and wishes he had been, the literary works, themes, and modes of analysis treated in this Guide will give you a solid start in discovering the infinite variety of wonderful literature written in our language—and the life-changing lessons you can take from it.
What PC English professors don’t want you to learn from:
■ Beowulf: Heroes deserve our respect and gratitude. If we don’t admire them, there’s something wrong with us.
■ Medieval English literature: The wisdom of the past beats the latest expert opinion, hands down.
■ Chaucer: Chivalry is one of the great inventions of Western culture, and it’s contributed enormously to women’s happiness.
■ Christopher Marlowe: Being “transgressive” will take you only so far — in art, and in life.
■ Shakespeare’s tragedies: Some choices are inherently destructive (it’s just built into the nature of things).
■ Shakespeare’s comedies: Our human nature—including even the very limitations that define it—is a rich source of happiness.
■ Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Love and sex are serious things. If you treat them lightly, someone’s going to get hurt.
■ Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin.
■ English literature of the Enlightenment: Realism, common sense, and good humor are more dignified equipment for life than victim politics, wishful thinking, and liberal guilt.
■ The Romantic poets: Intelligent radicals become conservatives when they grow up—make that, if they grow up.
■ Wordsworth and Coleridge: The difference between entertainment that degrades and entertainment that refreshes and ennobles.
■ Byron and Shelley: The human mind has enormous creative powers—which, if abused, can be terribly destructive.
■ Jane Austen: Social conventions exist for our (mainly women’s) protection—and most men would be improved if they were more patriarchal than they actually are.
■ Dickens: Reformers can do more harm than the injustices they set out to reform. And charity begins at home.
■ Avant-garde and modernist literature: Christianity trumps the edgy art world.
■ Evelyn Waugh: Without religion, human beings are disgustingly selfish and shallow—and in abandoning Christianity, our culture will shrivel and die.
■ T.S. Eliot: Tradition is necessary to culture.
■ Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, and Twain: Evil isn’t “back there” or “out there”; it’s in the human heart.
■ William Faulkner (and Southern literature in general): Civilization is valuable. A fatally flawed culture beats no culture at all.
■ Flannery O’Connor: Even modern American liberals aren’t immune to original sin.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 5/5
October 28th, 2018
I hope this book isn’t as dumb as the description makes out.
“Dickens: Reformers can do more harm than the injustices they set out to reform. And charity begins at home.”
I’ve read a few Dickens’ novels, and that isn’t at all the message I got, quite the reverse in fact.
“Medieval English literature: The wisdom of the past beats the latest expert opinion, hands down.”
So, any new knowledge that contradicts old beliefs is wrong. Global warming is a hoax! The sun goers round the earth! Evolution is the work of satan!
“Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin.” Anti-Christian? Sort of begging for an Antichrist joke here. But otherwise, the Ancient Greeks and medieval Muslims did pretty well on intellectual freedom; the latter while the Christian world was intellectually frozen by religious orthodoxy.
Fundamentalism of any stripe cannot tolerate intellectual freedom.
Literature is truly important and can teach us a lot; but about art, about human nature; not science or economics or history. As for morality: trying to proves the validity your moral outlook by citing how fictional characters acted in a fictional world is absurd. Most fiction is about unusual people in unusual circumstances doing unusual things, where the world is what it is and things happen in it because THE AUTHOR WANTS IT TO HAPPEN. Basically the idea is the novelists are the source of all knowledge and wisdom; ONLY the ones approved of by the author, of course.
October 28th, 2018
This is the biggest load of BS! I’m majoring in english right now and I can assure you that we have to study ALL OF THOSE AUTHORS. Both American and English Lit is required for an English degree (and in CA, the bluest state ever). Thankfully, we also get to study other stuff.
October 28th, 2018
The politically incorrect guides are VERY hit or miss. The one on socialism is spot on, but the one on the bible is a wank-fest which one can prove wrong just by reading the holy book in question. Unfortunately, this one is closer the latter than the former.
October 28th, 2018
@Gweilo
I forgot to provide the source of the above book description:
The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to English and American Literature | Author: Elizabeth Kantor
https://www.conservativebookclub.com/book/politically-incorrect-guide-english-american-literature
https://www.conservativebookclub.com/profile/elizabeth-kantor
October 28th, 2018
alnilam: thank you for sharing this book. :)
November 16th, 2018
This’ll bring me back! Thanks al, interesting series.
January 22nd, 2019
Conservatives always want to twist things to suit their fear and anemic worldview. The only way for them to feel safe is to make the enormous, the complex, the ambiguous into the small, the simplistic, the cut and dry. How anyone can read the description of this book and not see through the bias inherent in the whole premise? Please people. Read better.
June 30th, 2019
Ugh. Right-wing garbage. Politically correct, for right-wing Americans, is anything that fails to promote a discriminatory society. Any interpretation that doesn’t acknowledge their supremacist world view is described as conspiracy. I am pretty sure the poster did not “forget” to include the source.
February 15th, 2021
seed pls
April 20th, 2021
Thanks. Please seed.
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