[lbo-talk] Essential Reading - Hah!

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 05:37:08 PST 2012


On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:

As many histories have pointed out, as late as the mid-18th-c it was widely
> assumed that a list of books existed which all "educated men" shared in
> common.

How does this differ from the "great books" concept, which arose in the United States in the 1920s and 30s?


> Anyone who has not read Wellek, Frye, & Tamas is of course not competent to
> engage in this discussion.

Maybe not, but try and stop me!

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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