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Liberal Education and the Canon: Five Great Texts Speak to Contemporary Social Issues

by Ford, Laura C

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An educationalist argues for the traditional literary canon and its relevance to contemporary social issues.

Liberal Education and the Canon offers an argument for maintaining the traditional literary canon of the West as the centrepiece of a liberal arts education, from the perspective of a liberal, feminist, mainstream academic administrator. Laura Ford argues that to equate the great texts of the Western tradition with conservatism is to confuse the ideology of the texts; she undertakes to rebut the allegation of obsolescence by showing the prevalence of manycontemporary liberal themes in the traditional canon.
The book demonstrates the continuing relevance of five works of the Western tradition (Homer, Plato, the King James Bible, Shakespeare, and the American founding documents)to several of society's most complex and divisive social issues: sexual harassment, rape, homophobia, abortion, the 'right to die' and the death penalty. Each chapter illustrates dramatically how these traditional literary works capture some of the basic human struggles and dilemmas that have not greatly changed over the centuries.

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  • Nov 17, 1994 Pub Date:
  • 1571130136 ISBN-10:
  • 9781571130136 ISBN-13:
  • English Language