...Adam Ellwanger Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind elicited a storm of critical discourse regarding the condition of higher education in the United States. This essay performs a retrospective evaluation of the rhetorical modes that animated that body of discourse, suggesting...

...Donald Lazere Lazere strongly endorses Paul G. Cook's essay as a step toward rehabilitation of E. D. Hirsch's reputation in English studies and disagrees with Adam Ellwanger's attempt to do the same for Allan Bloom. The coincidence of their books' appearance has caused Hirsch to be saddled...

...Lynn Z. Bloom © 2004 Duke University Press 2004 Bender, Sheila, ed. 2001 . Keeping a Journal You Love . Cincinnati: Walking Stick. Blew, Mary Clearman, ed. 2001 . Written on Water: Essays on Idaho Rivers . Moscow: University of Idaho Press. Bloom, Lynn Z. 1998 [1992...

...Lynn Z. Bloom © 2004 Duke University Press 2004 Bender, Sheila, ed. 2001 . Keeping a Journal You Love . Cincinnati: Walking Stick. Blew, Mary Clearman, ed. 2001 . Written on Water: Essays on Idaho Rivers . Moscow: University of Idaho Press. Bloom, Lynn Z. 1998 [1992...

...Lynn Z. Bloom This prototypical disability studies course raises unusual issues of ethics and engagement because of its focus on sensitive, sometimes taboo matters of bodies and minds by autobiographers, physicians, theorists, and artists. These works enhance awareness of disability and human...

...Adam Ellwanger; Paul G. Cook The publication of E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind in 1987 represented an exceptional moment, an opportunity for disciplinary and institutional reflection about the role and function of English studies, rhetoric...

... why prior knowledge—not formal skills—is indispensable to all reading comprehension. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Bloom, Allan. 1987 . The Closing of the American Mind . New York: Simon & Schuster. Clark, Lorraine. 1992 . “Allan Bloom and Gerald Graff: On Mimesis as Freedom...

... Symposium Revisiting the Work of Allan Bloom and E. D. Hirsch  Jr. Disciplinarity, Pedagogy, and the Future of Education: Introduction Adam Ellwanger and Paul G. Cook For many scholars in the humanities, the 1987 publication of E. D. Hirsch’s Cultural Literacy and Allan Bloom’s...

... literacy depends—was obfuscated by the book's lightening-rod ethos, its deceptively simple veneer, and its smugly casual presumption to name “what every American needs to know.” © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Bloom, Allan. 1987 . The Closing of the American Mind . New York: Simon...

... . New York : Bloomsbury . Bloom Harold . [1975] 2003 . A Map of Misreading . New York : Oxford University Press . ———. 2000 . How to Read and Why . New York : Simon and Schuster . Burgin Victor . 1986 . The End of Art Theory . Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Humanities Press...

...Figure 4. Logan follows instructions in his analysis, demonstrating “responding” from Krathwohl, Bloom, and Masia's ( 1964 ) affective domain. ...

...Fadi Akhtar © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning . By Stanley Aronowitz. Boston: Beacon,2000. Bloom, Allan. 1987 . The Closing of the American Mind . New York: Simon and Schuster...

... crisis and the foundational cracks that run deeper than economic recession. Bickman, Martin. 2003 . Minding American Education: Reclaiming the Tradition of Active Learning . New York: Teachers College Press. Bloom, Harold. 2008. “Out of Panic, Self-Reliance.” New York Times, 11 October...

... for Undergraduate Education.” Change , November/December, 13 -25. Bloom, Benjamin S. 1956 . Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals . New York: Longmans. Boyer, Ernest L. 1990 . Scholarship Reconsidered: The Priorities of the Professoriate . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass...

... James A. 2003 [ 1996 ]. Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies . Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition . West Lafayette, IN : Parlor . Bloom Harold . 2000 . How to Read and Why . New York : Simon and Schuster . Bourdieu Pierre . 1977...

..., 4 - 13. New York: Viking. Bloom, Harold. 2003 . “Dumbing Down American Readers.” Boston Globe , 4 September. www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/09/24/dumbing_down_american_readers/ . Crago, Hugh. 2003 . “What Is a Fairy Tale?” Signal: Approaches to Children's...

... Literature, vol. 4: The Age of Romanticism . Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview . Bloom Harold . 1998 . “ They Have the Numbers; We, the Heights .” Introduction to The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988–1997 , ed. Bloom Harold , 15 – 25 . New York : Scribner . Comet Noah...

... . Beers Kylene Probst Robert . 2017 . Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters . New York : Scholastic . Berry Wendell . 2010 . “ The Pleasures of Eating .” In What Are People For? 145 – 52 . Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint . Bloom B. S. , eds. 1956 . Taxonomy...

.... Bazerman Charles Prior Paul , 1 – 10 . Mahway, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum . Benson Lee Harkavy Ira Puckett John . 2007 . Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform . Philadelphia : Temple University Press . Bloom Harold . 1997...