The Legacies of Literacy
The Legacies of Literacy

Author: Harvey J. Graff

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1987-03-22

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 9780253205988

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" --History of Education Quarterly"A stimulating challenge to traditional assumptions and scholarly commonplaces." --Journal of Communication

The Great Ideas
The Great Ideas

Author: Mortimer Jerome Adler

Publisher: Scribner

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780684859217

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Previously published: New York : Macmillan, 1992.

History of Libraries of the Western World
History of Libraries of the Western World

Author: Michael H. Harris

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1999-07-29

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0810877155

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This edition of the History of Libraries in the Western World represents a substantial revision of the earlier edition, taking into account the "information revolution" that has swept the West since 1945 and the political revolution that swept across Europe beginning in 1986. In addition, recent scholarship has been incorporated throughout the text, with special emphasis on the work centered around the "new history of the book." The bibliographies at the end of each of the twelve chapters have been thoroughly revised to reflect the very considerable new work on library and book history.

Reading History
Reading History

Author: Michael Burger

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2022-01-27

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1487532385

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History students read a lot. They read primary sources. They read specialized articles and monographs. They sometimes read popular histories. And they read textbooks. Yet students are beginners, and as beginners they need to learn the differences among various kinds of readings – their natures, their challenges, and the unique expectations one needs to bring to each of them. Reading History is a practical guide to help students read better. Uniquely designed with the author’s engaging explanations in the margins, the book describes primary sources across various genres, including documents of practice, treatises, and literary works, as well as secondary sources such as textbooks, articles, and monographs. An appendix contains tips and questions for reading primary or secondary sources. Full of practical advice and hands-on training that allows students to be successful, Reading History will cultivate a wider appreciation for the discipline of history.

The Western Canon
The Western Canon

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 751

ISBN-13: 0547546483

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The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a “heroically brave, formidably learned” defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional Western Canon. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the essential writers of the western literary tradition (The New York Times Book Review). Placing William Shakespeare at the “center of the canon,” Bloom examines the literary contributions of Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Pablo Neruda, and many others. Bloom's book, much-discussed and praised in publications as diverse as The Economist and Entertainment Weekly, offers a dazzling display of erudition and passion. “An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past.”—Michel Dirda, The Washington Post Book World