Whatls Happened to the Humanities?
Edited
by
Alvin Kernan
With a foreword by William Bowen and Harold Shapiro
" ....
This volume of specially commis-
sioned original essays presents the
thoughts of some of the most distin–
guished commentators within the
American academy on the fundamental
changes that have taken place in the
humanities in the latter part of the twen-
tieth century.
The contributors to the volume are
David Bromwich , John D'Arms, Denis
Donoghue, Carla Hesse , Gertrude
Himmelfarb, Lynn Hunt, Frank Kermode,
Louis Menand , Francis Oakley,
Christopher Ricks , and Margery Sabin .
The book begins with a substantial intro–
duction by Alvin Kernan and concludes
with an appendix of tables and figures
showing baccalaureate and doctoral
degrees awarded by colleges and univer–
sities.
Sponsored
by
The Andrew W Mellon Foundation
Cloth $29.9 5 15BN 0-69 1-0 1155-9
New in paperback
Wi nner of Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award
DOSTO(VSKY
The Miracul ous Years, 1865-1871
Joseph Frank
"In his aim of elucidating the setting within which Dostoevsky
wrote- personal on the one hand, social , historical , cultural , literary, and
philosophical on the other- Frank has succeeded triumphantly."
- J. M. Coetzee,
The New York Review of Books
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