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Tag: Fiction

206. (Vladimir Nabokov)

Coming to grips with Dostoevsky at all means coming to grips with the other half of the burden of art, … More

Dostoevsky, Fiction, Nabokov, the novel

32. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

A short phrase binds an entire ream of Tennyson criticism: “the art of the penultimate.” That Tennyson’s art looks forward … More

Bildungsroman, Byron, Christopher Ricks, Fiction, Franco Moretti, Novel, Poetry, Tennyson, Victorian Poetry, Wordsworth

20. (Marcel Proust)

Still reading, slowly, the second volume of Recherche. I’ve leapt from the Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright to the new James Grieve translation without wincing. … More

Attention, Fiction, Proust, Realism, Ruskin

5. (D.H. Lawrence)

V.S. Pritchett, introducing his edition of the Oxford Book of Short Stories, admits that he admires D.H. Lawrence most as a … More

Blackmur, D.H.Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Fiction, George Eliot, Modernism, Poetry, Robert Frost, Short Story, Thomas Hardy

4. (Henry James)

A friendly debate this afternoon about late Henry James and consciousness: what late Henry James does to, makes of, or … More

Erving Goffman, Fiction, Henry James, Realism, Sociology
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