Suggested Further Readings
John M. Ellis, Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Darío Fernández-Morera, American Academia and the Survival of Marxist Ideas. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
Harold Fromm, Academic Capitalism & Literary Value. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball, “Farewell to the MLA,” The New Criterion, February 1995.
Camille Paglia, “Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf,” Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
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Paul A. Cantor is professor of English at the University of Virginia and a member of the National Council on the Humanities. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Rome, Creature and Creator, and the Hamlet volume in the Cambridge Landmarks of World Literature Series.
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Cantor, P.A. Hijacking the modern language association: I. Soc 36, 24–29 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-999-1022-8
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