Roger Shattuck
With incisive analysis, he elucidates the nature of intellectual craftsmanship, defends art's undeniable moral component, and, faced with an academic world shattered by theory, laments how extra-literary politics have grown increasingly dominant, now attempting to eliminate the very category of literature. Whether commenting on Foucault, ,Pulp Fiction,, Georgia O'Keeffe, V.S. Naipaul, or the survival of a core tradition in the humanities, Shattuck presents a stirring synthesis of the principles and values by which we can live together as a nation finally at peace with its diversity. A ,Los Angeles Times, Best Book of the Year and a ,TLS, Notable Book of 1999.
Criticism,Literary Criticism,Nonfiction,Writing,Essays,Education
Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts