Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World.(Brief Article)

The Antioch Review | June 22, 1997| | Copyright

Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World by David Denby. Simon & Schuster, 493 pp., $30.00. John Keegan's In the Face of Battle (1976) was a long needed attempt to show the experience of war from the horizon of the foot soldier. Denby has achieved the same kind of overdue aim on the contested turf of American "culture wars." Denby first studied the "great books" at Columbia University in the early '60s. But 30 years later, as an established film critic, he returned to satisfy an itch to go beyond the critics ...

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