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The Salinger Riddle
Get PDFThis essay assesses the curious career of J D Salinger, the beloved and hugely successful American author but ignored and condescended to by critics. The essay explains why by examining a recent oral biography of the writer
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I'm Not There
Get PDFPerhaps, like me, you have a propensity to collect books without quite knowing why. Over the years I have piled up books by and about, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, George Santayana, Philip Roth, Ad Reinhardt, Philip Guston, Franz Rosenzweig, Penelope Fitzgerald, Thomas Bernhard--and not only not read them, but have no desire to do so. I have kept busy working on other things. And for a decade or two at a time, these texts simply gather dust on my shelves. But then, inevitably, I am drawn to these nearly forgotten volumes and, strangely, they prove pivotal to a new project
Henry James, Veblen and Adorno: The crisis of the modern self
No full textJournal of American Studies -- April 1987 -- pages 31-54
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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"Trust in One's Nakedness": James Baldwin's Sophistication
Get PDFDescribes James Baldwin's presence in American culture as "sophisticated" and explains the significance of this word in understanding Baldwin
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“Convert, convert, convert”: A Note on the Shared Aesthetic Imperative of Henry James and Wallace Stevens
Get PDFThough not literally a part of Henry James's family and its “queer, educative air,” Wallace Stevens, I think, imbibed some of its most fertile lessons
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"Don't think, but look!": W. G. Sebald, Wittgenstein, and Cosmopolitan Poverty
Get PDFThis essay has two aims: to bring together the antinovelist Sebald with a figure he revered, the antiphilosopher Wittgenstein, via the theme and form of "desublimed" looking--vision that respects surface and avoids "Cartesian rigidity" (Sebald). The essay weaves these two writers into a larger constellation, inaugurated by the first cosmopolitan Diogenes the Cynic, and which includes his admirer William James, a grouping marked by an esteem of poverty and the desire to find an exit from the refinement of philosophy as metaphysics
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