The following essays are being read in conjunction with the weekly assignments.
Week 1:
Week 2: The NEA Reports
Week 3: "Why Is American Poetry Culturally Deprived?" Kenneth Rexroth, from World Outside the Window
Week 4: "That's Not Fair," Stanley Fish, from There's No Such Thing as Free Speech . . . and It's a Good Thing Too;" "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," Langston Hughes, the full text of which is available here.
Week 5: "Introduction," The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Terry Eagleton.
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