The Dumbest Generation Grows Up From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults (Hardback) by MarkBauerlein Hardcover, Published 2022 by Regnery Gateway ISBN-13: 978-1-68451-220-1, ISBN: 1-68451-220-4
" From the author team of the discipline's most widely used literature anthology, this accessible and instructive guide introduces students to the language of literary study. Featuring an engaging and accessible writing style, this supplemental reference manual for the introductory student has over 400 entries and serves to demystify literature and the terms, techniques, and analysis tools that literary scholars use. "
The Dumbest Generation How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30) by MarkBauerlein Paperback, 253 Pages, Published 2009 by Tarcherperigee Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-58542-712-3, ISBN: 1-58542-712-8
" This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings. The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture. For decades, concern has been brewing about ..."
Negrophobia(1st Edition) A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 by MarkBauerlein Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2001 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-893554-23-8, ISBN: 1-893554-23-6
"At the beginning of the twentieth century, Atlanta was regarded as the gateway to the new, enlightened and racially progressive South. White business owners employed black workers and made their fortunes, while black leaders led congregations, edited periodicals, and taught classes. But in 1906, in a bitter gubernatorial contest, Georgia politicians played the race card and white supremacists trumpeted a "Negro crime" scare. Seizing on ..."
Literary Criticism An Autopsy (Critical Authors and Issues) by MarkBauerlein Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-1625-7, ISBN: 0-8122-1625-3
"Literary Criticism An Autopsy Mark Bauerlein "It's later than you think! Literary critics, practicing and prospective, had better take a close look at Mark Bauerlein's mordant and humorous 'autopsy.'"--Frederick Crews, editor, Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend "There isn't another book like this: a primer and a polemic on the jargon of literary study, impressive in its range of examples and uncompromising in its critique. ..."
The Pragmatic Mind Explorations in the Psychology of Belief (New Americanists) by MarkBauerlein, Donald E. Pease Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1997 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2013-5, ISBN: 0-8223-2013-4
""The Pragmatic Mind" is a study of the pragmatism of Emerson, James, and Peirce and its overlooked relevance for the neopragmatism of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Stanley Fish, and Cornel West. Arguing that the 'original' pragmatists are too often cited casually and imprecisely as mere precursors to this contemporary group of American intellectuals, Mark Bauerlein explores the explicit consequences of the earlier group's ..."
"This issue of Plough Quarterly explores the effects of technology on human flourishing. Whether its artificial intelligence, genome editing, Big Tech monopolies, or social media-induced depression, we live in a world that is being reshaped by technology from the ground up. How do we stay human? This issue of Plough Quarterly addresses challenges ranging from the lure of transhumanism to the erosion of silence by the smartphone. Technop ..."
The Dumbest Generation(1st Edition) How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) by MarkBauerlein Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Tarcher Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-58542-639-3, ISBN: 1-58542-639-3
"This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture. For decades, concern has been brewing about the dumbed-d ..."
" From the author team of the discipline's most widely used literature anthology, this accessible and instructive guide introduces students to the language of literary study. Featuring an engaging and accessible writing style, this supplemental reference manual for the introductory student has over 400 entries and serves to demystify literature and the terms, techniques, and analysis tools that literary scholars use. NEW T ..."
"A user-friendly introduction to the language of literary study, The Longman Dictionary of Literary Terms is an easy-to-use reference manual that aims to demystify literature and the techniques literary scholars use. It is a great asset to those readers who would like a smart companion to accompany their reading of literature. With an accessible writing style, this comprehensive guide features more than 400 entries, covering a wide a ..."
" A practical, instructive, and comprehensive guide to the language of literary study, Kennedy's A Handbook of Literary Terms is a reference manual that aims to demystify literature and the techniques literary scholars use. Over 400 entries. Clear, concise, and accessible definitions of key literary terms. Visual material supports explanations. Those interested in the study of literature and the vocabulary of literary inquiry. "
Whitman and the American Idiom(1st Edition) by MarkBauerlein Hardcover, 191 Pages, Published 1992 by Louisiana State Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-1681-4, ISBN: 0-8071-1681-5
"By analyzing the three editions of Leaves of grass and selected other works published between 1850 and 1860, Bauerlein demonstrates that Whitman's efforts to employ a natural language in a new American poetry were ultimately frustrated by ..."
"John Andrew Rice's autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed by the publisher soon after its appearance because of legal threats by a college president described in the book, the nation lost a rich first-person historical account of race and class relations during a critical period--not only during the days o ..."
"In 1987, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind was published; a wildly popular book that drew attention to the shift in American culture away from the tenants that made America—and Americans—unique. Bloom focused on a breakdown in the American curriculum, but many sensed that the issue affected more than education. The very essence of what it meant to be an American was disappearing. That was over twenty years ago. Since then ..."
"The Civil Rights Chronicle recounts the details and drama of the American civil rights movement, the decades-long struggle for equality for all people. This comprehensive, 448-page book primarily focuses on the years 1954 through 1968, while also documenting the radical shift in the movement after the 1960s as well as significant civil rights issues up to the present day. Written by noted scholars, the chronicle offers: A foreword by M ..."
"By examining the ways in which the conservative vision of the world informs certain modes of literary study and has been treated in various works of literature throughout the ages, this book seeks to recover conservatism as a viable, rigorous, intellectually sound method of critical inquiry. While it stops short of promoting political conservatism as an antidote to the dominant progressive strain of today’s university, it recognizes lit ..."
"By examining the ways in which the conservative vision of the world informs certain modes of literary study and has been treated in various works of literature throughout the ages, this book seeks to recover conservatism as a viable, rigorous, intellectually sound mode of critical inquiry. While it stops short of promoting political conservatism as an antidote to the dominant progressive strain of today’s university, it recognizes liter ..."
Negrophobia(Updated) A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 by MarkBauerlein Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2002 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-893554-54-2, ISBN: 1-893554-54-6
"In 1906, in a bitter gubernatorial contest, Georgia politicians played the race card and white supremacists trumpeted a Negro crime scare. Drawing on new archival materials, Mark Bauerlein traces the origins, development and brutal climax of Atlanta's descent into hatred and violence in that fateful summer. Negrophobia is history at its best--a dramatic moment in time impeccably recreated in a suspenseful narrative."
Critical Authors and Issues Ser. Literary Criticism : An Autopsy by MarkBauerlein Hardcover, 156 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-3411-4, ISBN: 0-8122-3411-1
"In 1987, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind was published; a wildly popular book that drew attention to the shift in American culture away from the tenants that made America—and Americans—unique. Bloom focused on a breakdown in the American curriculum, but many sensed that the issue affected more than education. The very essence of what it meant to be an American was disappearing. That was over twenty years ago. Since then ..."