Cultural Literacy (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Literature, Education or educators, Books, Reading, Popular culture, Learning or scholarship, Literacy
Form and Content
Occasionally, a university professor is transported from the comparative obscurity of academic life to the prominence of national celebrity. Such was the fate of E. D. Hirsch, Jr., upon publication of Cultural Literacy. During service on the English faculties of Yale University and the University of Virginia, Hirsch established a secure reputation as a literary theorist. That standing among his scholarly peers was achieved, in part, by such books as Wordsworth and Schelling: A Typological Study of Romanticism (1960), Innocence and Experience:...
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