In this wide-ranging collection of essays, a leading literary critic and intellectual examines classic English poetry, modern Jewish literature, the intersection of science and religion, and the fate of culture in a technological age. Whether the subject is the literary abilities of ChatGPT, the erotics of opera, the political imagination of Wordsworth and Shelley, or the return to tradition by contemporary Jewish novelists, these searching and insightful essays ask how the twenty-first century can make contact with an increasingly distant and contested cultural legacy. The book concludes with “Nothing That Is Not There,” a major new essay that attempts to think in Jewish terms about the problem of faith and meaning in a secular age.
Joshua Gooch examines how nineteenth-century writers use genre to imagine new ways of thinking-feeling about their implication by racial capitalism, from hope and trust to comfort, cunning, and defiance.
Confronted with the depredations of liberalism, nineteenth-century writers used genre to grapple affectively with t...
In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass democracy. This book endeavo...
Abstract:John Galsworthy's fiction has been too easily dismissed by (modernist) literary history. His most famous work—The Forsyte Saga—offers a scathing critique of imperial England. Yet, over the course of the trilogy, his satire is gradually overtaken by a sentimental preoccupation with national continuity. His nove...
Leo Kadokura· MFS: Modern Fiction Studies· 0 citations
This essay is written as a tribute to James Merrill and Elizabeth Bishop arguing that the poetry they wrote in 1970s shows how lyric can be used as a rhetorical form through which not just to criticize but to refuse conventional narratives of historical continuity and accountability. The essay attempts to reawaken fo...
Peter Dimock· Twentieth Century Literature· 0 citations
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984), N.M. Rashid (1910-1975), and Miraji (1912-1949) are three of the most prominent poets of Urdu modernism. Despite writing at the same time and responding to the same literary and political landscapes, they took different approaches to tradition and its relationship to poetic invention, views...
Z. Siddiqui, J. Steyn, Aron Aji et al.· 0 citations
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