Criticism
… a bind of its own, the wadding of already loaded public rituals and private relationships with yet more layers of … diverse, with knotted, enigmatic, but generally low-octane complaints. Lauren and Sarah have opened their relationship … idea that a story is better, truer, more useful if audience participation is an explicit feature of its design. …
Essays
… discussion turns on the poem’s meaning and how meaning becomes lodged through metaphor, image, meter, symbol, … and women were women and critics were critics. There may also have been an exact hour in the seventeenth century … everything. There have been sophisticated and revealing studies on these subjects, but in the classroom what you tend …
… imagine that de Gaulle sought his place at the head of that company out of personal pride, out of his fierce sense of … Perhaps the story should be left at that. We have also succeeded in demonstrating in the last few years the … cosmopolitan dream of the promise of the 18th century embodied in the enlightened vision of French philosophy and the …
… the water dripping from the berries and from the young bodies beside the pond, the birds quarreling outside, the … young man of twenty or so, passed by and beckoned to him. “Come along, I’ll show you a thing or two,” he whispered. … upon the sawdust, kissing and clutching at each other’s bodies—his cousin Zofja and the handsome young officer …
… statute?) is delusionary. Looking backward, the view also holds that the FBI’s persecution of Martin Luther King, … is, in fact, a remarkable job, maybe unprecedented in its combination of social-science analysis with skilled … late Stanley Levison was the main one. Here in this book come at us other and considerably less worthy names— Morris …
… speculative scholarship, pure and simple: that elaborately compounding (and compoundingly controversial) theory of his … come on line till several years later. Let’s see, Constable dies in 1837, just before the invention of chemical … a camera, since it featured those two distinct vanishing points so characteristic of refocusing, and I wanted to …