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The Bard, the Black, the Jew
More than any other writer, Shakespeare embodies the distinctive principles of Western Civilization. Men and women of the West are drawn to Shakespeare because his plays and poems continue...
Before Foucault
Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism By Mark Royden Winchell. University Press of Virginia, 510 pages, $34.95. I still own and still make frequent use of my...
The Old New Criticism and its Critics
Among the pugnacious practitioners of academic literary studies, who agree among themselves on almost nothing, there is one consensus: the New Criticism—that is, the old New Criticism associated with...
