William Carlos Williams – The True Value of Art
“The true value is that peculiarity which gives an object a character by itself. The associational or sentimental value is Continue reading
“The true value is that peculiarity which gives an object a character by itself. The associational or sentimental value is Continue reading
Frank Lentricchia’s Criticism and Social Change tackles the social function of (literary) criticism through careful readings of Edmund Burke’s works. Continue reading
“There can only be two interpretations. One is the traditional: Life is lived as a work of art. The other Continue reading
“I suffer myself from the common nervous dread of literature. When I go on holiday, I read first the thrillers, Continue reading
In his essay on John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. Trilogy, Lionel Trilling references John Dewey’s statements about moral character and moral choice. Continue reading
An infrequent movie year for me as I was finishing my dissertation, but these are the films that I saw Continue reading
“Reading is a craft that can never be fully accomplished. Even if every syllable of a text were to be Continue reading
“Words, when well chosen, have so great a Force in them, that a Description often gives us more lively Ideas Continue reading