A Short List of Favorites:
Prepared as part of the Course: Information Resources in the
Humanities, Rutgers School of Library Studies.
David Carr
Atlas, J. 1990. Battle of the Books: The Curriculum Debate in America.
New York: Norton.
Aufderheide, P., ed. 1992. Beyond P.C.: Toward a Politics of
Understanding. St. Paul: Graywolf Press.
Berger, J. 1972. Ways of Seeing. New York: Penguin.
Berman, P., ed. 1992. Debating P. C.: The Controversy over Political
Correctness on College Campuses. New York: Dell.
Bolton, R., ed. 1992. Culture Wars. New York: New Press.
Coles, R. 1989. The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral
Imagination. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Couch, N. and Allen, N. 1993. The Humanities and the Library. 2nd ed.
Chicago: American Library Association.
de Grazia, E. 1992. Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity
and the Assault on Genius. New York: Random House.
Dissanayake, E. 1988. What is Art For? Seattle: University of
Washington Press.
Dissanayake, E. 1992. Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Why.
New York: Free Press.
Eco, U. 1994. Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press.
Eco, U. 1989. The Open Work. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Gless, D. J. and Smith, B. H., eds. 1991. The Politics of Liberal
Education. Durham: Duke University Press.
Graff, G. 1992. Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can
Revitalize American Education. New York: Norton.
John-Steiner, V. 1985. Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Karp, I. and Lavine, S. D. 1991. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and
Politics of Museum Display. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution
Press.
Kosuth, J. 1992. The Play of the Unmentionable: An Installation by
Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum. New York: The New Press and the
Brooklyn Museum.
Macedo, D. 1994. Literacies of Power: What Americans are Not Allowed to
Know. Boulder: Westview Press.
Maquet, J. 1986. The Aesthetic Experience: An Anthropologist Looks at
the Visual Arts. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Rich, A. 1993. What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics.
New York: Norton.
Smith, F. 1990. To Think. New York: Teachers College Press.
Storey, J. 1993. An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular
Culture. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Vogel, S. 1988. ART/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections.
New York: Center for African Art.
Spring 1995