Canons and Consequences: Reflections on the Ethical Force of Imaginative Ideals

by Charles Altieri

What does our literary past offer the present? Using his grasp of the full range of contemporary philosophical and literary stances, Charles Altieri in Canons and Consequences? offers a fascinating dialogue between cultures which should influence how we understand the purposes of literary education.

This book takes the debate about the canon as a crucial test case for how competing perspectives in literary theory approach the subject...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810109158
• ISBN13: 9780810109155
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"