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Rediscovering Values : Coming to Terms With Postmodernism
author
:
Curtler, Hugh Mercer.
publisher
:
ME Sharpe, Inc.
isbn10 | asin
:
0765600595
print isbn13
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9780765600592
ebook isbn13
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9780585208114
language
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English
subject
Postmodernism (Literature) , Values in literature.
publication date
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1997
lcc
:
PN98.P67C88 1997eb
ddc
:
801/.3
subject
:
Postmodernism (Literature) , Values in literature.
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Rediscovering Values
Coming to Terms with Postmodernism
Hugh Mercer Curtler
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Copyright 1997 by M. E. Sharpe, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Curtler, Hugh Mercer. Rediscovering values: coming to terms with Postmodernism / Hugh M. Curtler. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7656-0059-5 (alk. paper). 1. Postmodernism (Literature) 2. Values in literature. I. Title. PN98.P67C881997 801'.3dc21 97-9281 CIP Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z 39.48-1984.
EB(c) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
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To my sons: Hugh and Rudy
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
3
Chapter 1. Inverted Consciousness and the Eclipse of Values
11
Chapter 2. The Postmodern Challenge
27
Chapter 3. The Rejection of Values
53
Chapter 4. What Are Values?
76
Chapter 5. Values in the Arts
102
Chapter 6. Greatness in Literature
126
Chapter 7. Values and the Great Conversation
145
Postscript. In Defense of Values
163
Bibliography
169
Index
175
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Acknowledgments
This book started out to be a collection of essays written on the subject of values during the past thirty years. Two things quickly became evident: (1) several of the essays were outdated and the collection lacked coherence as a result, and (2) my increasing interest in the postmodern attack on values in recent years could easily provide a frame of reference to help make the collection coherent. This necessitated rewriting several of the essays, writing three new chapters, and combining parts of several separate essays into one new chapter.
I want to thank Modern Age for allowing me to reprint, albeit in this peculiar fashion, several essays that appeared in that journal over the years. That periodical is where I first introduced the notion of "inverted consciousness" in the summer of 1985. I should also like to thank Conradiana for permission to print a portion of my essay defending Conrad from Chinua Achebe's libel that he was a racist and, therefore, Heart of Darkness cannot be considered a great novel. That essay began my inquiries into the concept
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of "greatness" in literature and expanded into the present sixth chapter. The seventh chapter is a revision of a paper that first appeared in Forum for Honors, published by the National Collegiate Honors Society in 1994 as "Citizenship in a World of Difference." It has been greatly expanded.
Several people played instrumental roles in the process of bringing this book to light. To begin with, Peter Coveney at M.E. Sharpe encouraged me to start the project. Of inestimable help was Wally Beasley, my colleague and friend in faraway Georgia, who showed infinite patience and vision in helping to transform heterogeneous essays into a coherent whole. A former student and friend, Kevin Stroup, read an early version of the manuscript, gave me encouragement, and reassured me that the book wasn't overly narrow or technical. Connie McQuillen and Marianne Zarzana echoed that reassurance, and Marianne edited several key chapters in order to enable me to make my ideas clearer. Finally, my colleague Stewart Day made a number of helpful comments on an early version of the second chapter.
I would like to blame these people for the book's failings, but alas, I cannot. The blame is mine alone.
Cottonwood, Minnesota December 1996
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Introduction
We live in troubling times. But like Mrs. Jellyby, her head filled with notions of Borrioboola-Gha, we bluster effusively over trivia while all around us serious problems go unattended. "Conservatives" (who don't give a moment's thought to conservation) worry about the gross national product and interest rates, while "liberals" tinker with a broken social machine and busily add names to the list of society's victims. Environmentalists make impossible demands as their critics holler about "jobs'' while downsizing. Nations that are able to do so stockpile nuclear weapons, while those that aren't try to find out how to join the fray; terrorists and political dissidents stand by to pick up the scraps. While we complain about maintaining our "quality of life," we can hear the politicians in the background dickering about where to put the growing tonnage of nuclear waste that we produce. Overhead the ozone thins while we cut down rain forests, plan a new golf course in Las Vegas, and take little note of our diminishing aquifers, global warming, and desertification. Human populations increase
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