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THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE MODERN CLASSICS
Author(s) -
Hocking Elton
Publication year - 1932
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1932.tb06859.x
Subject(s) - confusion , reading (process) , plan (archaeology) , quality (philosophy) , literature , classics , epistemology , philosophy , history , linguistics , psychology , art , psychoanalysis , archaeology
Author's summary.— The reading objectives, old and new. Quality and Quantity. Current confusion in conditions, and in thinking. The new plan is anti‐literary for: (1) it reads the classics for content, (2) it mutilates their texts, or (3) it abandons them. Our only defensible “first objective” is the literary one.