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In Defense of a Liberal Education

Fareed Zakaria expresses his views on the need for a Liberal Arts Education

Student, Faculty, and Others Opinions on Literature Canons

This article is for anyone who wonders why the books that they feel have changed their lives are never listed in the current canon.

21st-Century Students Demand a Balanced, More Inclusive Canon by Tonya B. Perry and B. Joyce Stallworth

A Vicious Circle: How Canon Continues to Reinforce Sex Segregation in Literature in the 21st Century by Miroslaw Miernik, University of Warsaw

To Read or Not to Read? The Canon and the 21st Century by Battle of Ideas, Institute of Ideas 2013 Programme Click on the items in the Recommended Readings for the opinions.

 

 

An Explanation of What a Canon Is...

What Classics Will Our Century Produce? A Huffington Post Blog

Some books in the "Canons" of the past are still valid today

The New Canons

The New Canon: The 21 Books from the 21st Century Every Man Should 
Read
. published by GQ Magazine

Predict Which 21st Century Novels Will Enter the Literary Canon? And Which Overrated Ones Won't? by Colin Marshall

The New Canon: 15 Modern Classics You Should Read Right Now from Qwiklit

Found using a Google Search...literature canon 21st century...you will find much to choose from.

 

 

 

Summon Search

Journals, Magazines, Newspaper Articles, etc.

Many of you will be looking for scholarly articles for your projects and papers. This link will take you to an A-Z List of our 250+ databases. The primary general databases are Gale's Academic OneFile, Ebsco's Academic Search Premier and Proquest's Research Library. At this time if you want to search by subject, you should go to the Billington Library's home page, choose Browse
Databases, and click on Subject. Then choose the subject that best fits your research area. Look at the databases in that subject area to start your searching.