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Live Ammo in the Literary Canon |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Philip Gerard |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,674 Words, 16,964 Characters |
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GREAT BOOKS
My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other
Indestructible Writers of the Western World
David Denby
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996
493 pp., $30.00
A film critic for New York magazine for nearly twenty years, David Denby would be the first to recognize himself as the middle-aged protagonist of one of those back-to-college movies, a standard comic genre containing a gently uplifting message. Now materially successful but unfulfilled in spirit, a thoughtful gentleman who looks very much like Bing Crosby enrolls as a freshman at All-American U. and confronts first principles through the eyes of worldly experience. Through his clumsy but endearing attempts to be one of the gang, we relive the raucous, unsettling, challenging, demoralizing, in...
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...ed me: The core-curriculum courses jar so many student habits, violate so many contemporary pieties, and challenge so many forms of laziness that so far from serving a reactionary function, they are actually the most radical courses in the undergraduate curriculum."So in the final reel, Denby's romance is not with the teacher but with the Great Books themselves--and it is a triumphal embrace.
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