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Holding the Center
Politicians and pundits often scorn polarization and compromise the intransigence of the former and the feebleness of the latter without suggesting an alternative way. …
Novel Practices
An important debate in modern literary criticism concerns the exact relationship between the ancient epic and the novel. Both the epic and the most ambitious modern novels are …
ModERNisM AND THE CRiTiCAL SpiRiT
Complaints about the decline of critical standards in literature and culture in general have been voiced for much of the twentieth century. These have extended from F.R. Leavis's …
Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities
In recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of …
Confessions of a Secular Jew
What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience …
Does Literary Studies Have a Future?
An assessment of the current state and future of literary studies in the United States, this text challenges the view that literary classics must be relevant to our immediate …
Mostly Grave Thoughts
In this new collection, Eugene Goodheart, scholar of English literature, essayist, and public intellectual, reveals himself in a way that will interest readers already familiar …
The Cult of the Ego
Goethe once remarked that "every emancipation of the spirit is pernicious unless there is a corresponding growth of control." This remark may be taken as a motto for Eugene …
D.H. Lawrence
The dominant view of D.H. Lawrence's work has long been that of F. R. Leavis, who confined Lawrence within an exclusively ethical and artistic tradition. In D.H. Lawrence: The …