Literature Lost (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John M. Ellis
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Literary criticism and education
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: Race, Gender roles, Literature, Education or educators, Prejudices or antipathies, Class consciousness, Feminism, Colleges or universities, Humanities
Since the 1960’s, American academic departments of humanities have gradually displaced core Western literature with a new orthodoxy, one that emphasizes the goals and tenets of political correctness. John Ellis contends that this trend has caused severe damage to the contemporary university. Not only is the methodology of political correctness flawed, he argues, but its pursuit also vitiates the very ends to which it is committed. The courage of strong leadership in academia is required to reverse this regrettable trend.
Ellis explores the causes of political correctness....
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