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Bitter Scrolls: Sexist Poison in the Canon
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Bitter Scrolls: Sexist Poison in the Canon Paperback - 2010

by Heinegg, Peter

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Univ Pr of Amer, 2010. Paperback. New. 172 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.25 inches.
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  • Title Bitter Scrolls: Sexist Poison in the Canon
  • Author Heinegg, Peter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 172
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Univ Pr of Amer, Lanham, MD
  • Date 2010
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0761852883
  • ISBN 9780761852889 / 0761852883
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Religious Orientation: Islamic
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects Canon (Literature), Sexism in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010933279
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.9

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From the publisher

Bitter Scrolls is a broad survey of our "sacred texts," both Holy Writ (Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Qur'an) and secular masterpieces, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the work of William Butler Yeats and D.H. Lawrence, whose canonical status often exempts them from the sort of hardnosed, commonsense criticism that we uniformly apply to contemporary literature and art. A frank look at this literature reveals a stunning combination of bias and blindness toward women. Acknowledging this would, in any case, be painful and depressing; but confronting it in some of our greatest minds-Homer, Aeschylus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, and so on-must inevitably give rise to profound, if no longer unusual, culture shock. With few exceptions, we can no more remake the canon than we can redesign our family tree, but we need to come to terms with the toxic contents of our art.

About the author

Peter Heinegg is a professor of English at Union College, critic, translator, and essayist. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University.