دستور زبان ادب ما: آموزش کلاسیک در آمریکا

The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury--and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee T. Pearcy chronicles how this came to be. Pearcy argues that classics never developed a distinctly American way of responding to distinctly American social conditions. Instead, American classical education simply imitated European models that were designed to underwrite European culture. The Grammar of Our Civility also offers a concrete proposal for the role of classical education, one that takes into account practical expectations for higher education in twenty-first century America. The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury - and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee Pearcy chronicles how this came to be. Table of Contents......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 1. The Grammar of Our Civility......Page 14 2. The American Dialect......Page 56 3. Finis: Four Arguments against Classics......Page 98 4. Prolegomena to a Pragmatic Classicism......Page 130 Notes......Page 160 Works Cited......Page 174 Index......Page 186 I want to talk about what happens when language no longer describes things, when words slip their moorings in reality. Lee T. Pearcy. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 161-172) And Index.