The literary critic Adam Kirsch characterizes the book as provocative.
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His son, the literary critic Sven Birkerts, confirmed the death.
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Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator.
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Queenie Leavis, herself a formidably literary critic, composed a cold missive
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I wanted to be a literary critic for a long time.
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Death of Stalin, I thought of Soviet literary critic Viktor Shklovsky's
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Laing is a literary critic, yet Lonely City draws primarily on visual
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WASHINGTON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Chinese officials probably don't read literary critic Harold Bloom.
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Professor Bloom was frequently called the most notorious literary critic in America.
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Her brother is also a novelist, and her husband is a literary critic.
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Literary critic Liu was born in December 1955 in northeastern China's Jilin Province.
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To go by Making It, the towering Cambridge literary critic F.R. Leavis was
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He owed this transformation largely to one man, the literary critic Hugh Kenner.
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Targoff proves herself as good a popular historian as she is a literary critic.
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Orwell's consolation, as a literary critic, was that he could have been something worse.
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As literary critic, Lukács examined how longings for a lost utopia shaped modern literature.
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He might be a famous radio announcer, literary critic, or host a program on PBS.
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Bongwan (Kwon Hae-hyo), a respected literary critic, runs a small publishing house in Seoul.
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She studied at Stockholm University, graduating in 1986, then established herself as a literary critic.
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It was written by Dale Peck, an author and literary critic with a history of controversy.
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But may god forgive the literary critic who swallows the guff of Twenge and her ilk.
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I had recently read a book called "The Other Victorians," by the literary critic Steven Marcus.
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Ippei, the 40-year-old owner of the shop, is also a literary critic and translator.
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Sand appreciation is still stuck in what Naomi Schor, a feminist literary critic, called the "autobiographical stage".
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Little wonder that James Wood, a literary critic, coined the term "hysterical realism" to describe "White Teeth".
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" Elaine Showalter, the feminist literary critic, added: "I don't know if there will be a dominant line.
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It's narrated by Daria, a Marxist and part-time literary critic who also happens to be dead.
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Read: A new collection by the literary critic James Wood includes pieces on Chekhov and Virginia Woolf.
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He dedicates poems to Susan Stewart, Harold Bloom, and Robert Dash — a poet, literary critic, and painter.
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Simon Chandler is a music and literary critic, as well as a commentator on news, technology, and politics.
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"Br'er Rabbit is a symbol of covert resistance to white power," literary critic Robert Bone argued in 1975.
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Armed with a doctoral degree in Chinese literature, Liu was a rising-star literary critic in the 1980s.
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She ended up instead with a Lithuanian-born literary critic, Arieh (Gilad Kahana), whose nerdiness verges on caricature.
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Delbanco's skills as a literary critic also illuminate the contributions fugitive slaves made to the growing antislavery movement.
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It garnered attention in academic circles and was positively reviewed by the literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin.
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For a quarter-century, the literary critic Edmund Wilson, Nabokov's pal, had remained publicly silent about Nabokov's fiction.
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" The aloof literary critic is saying, "I'm not one of you, and I'm going to pretend you don't exist.
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His father was Mark Van Doren, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, literary critic and professor of English at Columbia.
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In important ways, Dr. Mazzucato's work resembles that of a literary critic or rhetorician as much as an economist.
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Read: A new collection of writing by the literary critic James Wood includes pieces on Chekhov and Virginia Woolf.
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Mr. Liu, who died Thursday, was a passionate and acerbic lecturer and literary critic in Beijing in the 1980s.
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Humans, as the late literary critic Frank Kermode argued in his book The Sense of an Ending, crave narrative structure.
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His crimes were terrible and inexcusable, but even a century on, it's clear Stockford was a skillful literary critic, too.
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As the late literary critic Frank Kermode argued in his book The Sense of an Ending, humans crave narrative structure.
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Charles Finch is a literary critic and novelist whose next book, "The Vanishing Man," will be published on Feb. 19.
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Decades ago, the literary critic Lionel Trilling gave us an answer that sounds very old-fashioned to our authentic ears: sincerity.
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"This is the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read," Leon Wieseltier, the literary critic, wrote in The Times.
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Would she pounce on some unwittingly idolatrous remark of mine and eviscerate me as she had done [literary critic Harold] Bloom?
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Called the most notorious literary critic in America, Professor Bloom argued for the superiority of giants like Shakespeare, Chaucer and Kafka.
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Professor Bloom was widely regarded as the most popular literary critic in America (an encomium he might have considered faint praise).
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The Norwegian literary critic Ane Farsethås, who interviewed Solstad for The Paris Review in 218, likens his long career to Philip Roth's.
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She was a literary critic who focused on Russian literature and had been in our family the person most attached to Russia.
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Aleksandr Arkhangelsky, a literary critic and TV host, wrote on Facebook that the authorities' actions affirmed Mr. Serebrennikov as a great director.
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Famed literary critic Edward Said went further, suggesting that literary emphasis on coming-of-age is a system of social control and order.
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OBITUARIES An obituary last Wednesday about the literary critic and historian Daniel Aaron misidentified the subject he taught at Smith College and Harvard.
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I just met with a young literary critic who enthusiastically recommended "A Death in the Family," by the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard.
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"Do you believe that our empire will be destroyed in 1917?" asked Viktor Shklovsky, a literary critic, when he met Khlebnikov at a reading.
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A question about influences on the LP saw us skirting around the anxiety of influence, an idea posited by the literary critic Harold Bloom.
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"The case of Ezra Pound, it begins to seem, will be with us forever," the literary critic Irving Howe wrote in World in 1972.
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In this case, the media has been thrust in the position of the literary critic, drawing lines between the artwork and the broader culture.
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"He's signaling that it's an important book in the day of Black Lives Matter," said Michael Schaub, a literary critic based in Austin, Tex.
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The French philosopher and literary critic René Girard held that such scapegoating and ritual sacrifice is an essential part of group identity and solidarity.
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Early in his career, James Wood, the commanding, occasionally contentious literary critic at The New Yorker — once anointed "the last critic" — used a pseudonym.
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In other notable deaths, Clive James, a fixture in Britain as a literary critic and comic of unusually wide range, has died at 80.
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As poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch writes in his new book, "The People and the Books," texts often became turning points in Jewish history.
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He took away from his Columbia education the belief that being a serious literary critic meant holding in contempt the things that belong to Caesar.
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Over her lifetime, award-winning Native American poet, literary critic, and scholar Paula Gunn Allen produced several books of poetry, scholarly works, and edited anthologies.
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For that issue, he commissioned Ms. Hardwick, a literary critic, to write an extended essay on the state of book reviewing in the United States.
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She had her whole life ahead of her, she thinks, and she was just starting to think she might be a good literary critic, too.
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In fact, the literary critic Adam Kirsch argues in his new book, The Global Novel, these circumstances have given rise to an entirely new literary category.
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Grave and self-important humanists—notably the towering historian of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem and the earnest literary critic Irving Howe—were offended by Roth's clownishness.
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The unusual collaboration was hatched in the spring of 803 when Mr. Pestre and Mr. Moretti, a literary critic by trade, met while working in Berlin.
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She was married to the illustrious literary critic Lionel Trilling, and both were members of the loose, largely Jewish group known as the New York Intellectuals.
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Oh, look, here comes Stanley Fish, the American literary critic and legal scholar, who has initiated what is possibly a new genre: celebrity-academic self-help.
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" Sterling Brown, the poet and pioneering black literary critic, put it even more directly: "Ma really knew these people; she was a person of the folk.
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IN A 1986 INTERVIEW, the Palestinian-American literary critic Edward Said recounted a conversation with a friend over a breakfast of yogurt cheese strewn with za'atar.
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"An English professor and literary critic deftly exposes the hidden origins of the MBTI and the seductive appeal and fatal flaws of personality types," Grant writes.
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In 1956, he married Barbara Skelton, the former wife of his friend Cyril Connolly, a literary critic and writer, to whom she returned when the relationship soured.
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Ms Showalter, a feminist literary critic and professor emeritus at Princeton University, relies heavily on Julia's perspective, leaving little room for her husband to make his case.
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A literary critic for Slate and a former academic, O'Connell is less interested in evaluating technology than in the people who make it and its philosophical implications.
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In a long and extraordinary career as a literary critic, one of Showalter's most influential works is an essay called "Toward a Feminist Poetics," published in 1979.
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James Fenton, an English poet and literary critic, longtime contributor to The Review and friend of Mr. Buruma's, said he believed the editor was unhappy about leaving.
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By the time Ronald Reagan became president in 1980, the fractious literary critic was an influential voice in Washington, especially for his writings against the Soviet Union.
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And yet, in 1921, a few years before he wrote the "Great Gatsby," Fitzgerald wrote a letter to the legendary literary critic, Edmund Wilson, explaining his own views.
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" James Wood, a famous literary critic, also expressed his support for Ms. Danius, telling Dagens Nyheter that her removal was "a backlash from the trenches of male privilege.
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In the short-lived Communist government that followed, Polanyi was offered a position in the culture ministry by his friend György Lukács, later a celebrated Marxist literary critic.
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One year, Mr. Schjeldahl received a warm note of thanks from Louis Menand, the literary critic and Harvard professor, who described the party as a spectacular aesthetic experience.
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Tracing these kinds of formal structures in the ancient Hebrew text, exploring their significance and arguing for their relevance has been Alter's lifelong mission as a literary critic.
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The Q. and A. session followed, with questions from Friedan, Sontag and the literary critic Anatole Broyard, who asked Ms. Greer to describe women's sexual requirements after liberation.
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"It doesn't negate his achievements, and may even correlate with them: for what he has done, you need a bit of craziness," wrote Anna Narinskaya, a prominent literary critic.
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His mother, Natalia Wilder, was a translator and literary critic; his father, Aleksander Budniewicz, in the spelling used by Mr. Modzelewski, was a Russian officer whom he never knew.
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He built on the insights of the groundbreaking literary critic Es'kia Mphahlele, who accused Europeans like Conrad of depicting Africans as acted on by history instead of making it.
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In memoriam: Harold Bloom, a prodigious and best-selling literary critic, argued for the superiority of the Western canon (which his detractors noted was written mostly by white men).
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"She was a novelist married to a powerful literary critic who seems never to have expressed any appreciation, or scarcely any interest, in his wife's writing," Mr. Epstein concluded.
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In 1948 F.R. Leavis, a well-known literary critic at Cambridge University, listed him in "The Great Tradition" as being up there with Jane Austen, George Eliot and Henry James.
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Moten's insightful comments demonstrate that the problem of the one-way cultural street is still here, even in the supposedly high-minded milieu of a literary critic such as Perloff.
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"Sloterdijk creates for his readers the feeling that they are suddenly in possession of the solutions to the greatest problems in philosophy," the German literary critic Gustav Seibt told me.
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These final years have inspired books such as French novelist Laurent Seksik's "The Last Days" and German literary critic Volker Weidermann's "Summer before the Dark", set in Ostend in 1936.
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Now, the 61-year-old intellectual and literary critic has liver cancer — and the Chinese authorities are refusing to allow him to travel to the United States for medical treatment.
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It was created by Rhoda Koenig, a literary critic, and Auberon Waugh, at that time editor of Literary Review, who felt that sex scenes were becoming increasingly gratuitous in literary fiction.
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Literary critic Rob Nixon has coined the term "slow violence" to describe the largely invisible, long-term environmental depredations visited upon disadvantaged communities and cultures as a result of climate change.
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She had many liaisons with both men and women throughout her life, even during her long and happy marriage to the shambling and abstracted English literary critic and writer John Bayley.
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Unlike Addie and Susie, Daria is (or was) a sexed-up Italian Marxist and part-time literary critic, a devotee of club drugs and anal sex and the novels of William Gaddis.
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We could keep going: director James Toback, celebrity chef John Besh, U.K. Defense Secretary Michael Fallon, former Nickelodeon showrunner Chris Savino, Israeli media mogul Alex Gilady, literary critic Leon Wieseltier, photographer Terry Richardson.
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In 1893, she published her first journalistic piece for the Lincoln Nebraska State Journal: thus began a two-decade run as a literary critic, drama and music critic, all-purpose reporter, and editor.
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John Gardner, the literary critic, wrote that the job of the novelist is to create a "vivid and continuous dream" for the reader, but I'd somehow developed a case of readerly sleep apnea.
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As literary critic David Steege (among others) has pointed out, the Harry Potter books draw on the long tradition of "public school stories" that reached their peak in 1857 with Tom Brown's School Days.
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This series is loosely based on Chris Kraus' 1997 book of the same name, which tracked Kraus' dissolving relationship with literary critic Sylvère Lotringer and their mutual obsession with the art critic Dick Hebdige.
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My immediate supervisor was in his fifties and had studied comparative literature under the Palestinian-American literary critic Edward Said, one of my heroes at Columbia, where I had just got my bachelor's degree.
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" The literary critic of The Smart Set had been "a good friend" to his prose, as Conrad wrote in a letter to Mencken himself, expressing "the pleasure of a writer who sees himself understood.
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He fell into Tova's arms, hugging and kissing her, and pretended he was dying of a surfeit of lust, then began joking with her about some poet and literary critic I'd never heard of.
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In a 1988 interview with the literary critic Larry McCaffery, Mr. Wolfe talked about the genesis of his often intricate stories, how ideas would knock around inside his head and eventually gel into something.
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Nor does it greatly enlarge our appreciation of de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex," a book Blanche championed, to learn that it was from its pages that the literary critic Jane Gallop learned to masturbate.
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And these complaints about white marginalization do lead to "an eye roll" among many black South Africans, said Wamuwi Mbao, a literary critic and lecturer at Stellenbosch University, who writes about race and identity.
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Yet numerous Twitter users did just that this week, including Mother Jones editor in chief Clara Jeffery, New York Times literary critic Dwight Garner, Fox News pundit Brit Hume, and bellowing colonial throwback John Bolton.
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Offering close readings of those books and the artist's mark-ups within them (while also drawing on an array of thinkers and scholars, especially Roland Barthes), she profitably confronts Twombly's work as a literary critic.
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Mr. Liu, a literary critic and prominent figure in the 1989 Tiananmen protests, was sentenced to an 11-year prison term in 2009 for inciting subversion after he compiled Charter 08, a pro-democracy manifesto.
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Nowhere is this better described than in a 1931 essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin: … there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tension between the poles of disorder and order.
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The literary critic Alfred Kazin wondered whether he had embellished some stories, and questions were raised about whether "Night" was a memoir or a novel, as it was sometimes classified on high school reading lists.
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Some opposing players burned copies of Ball Four while Bouton was pitching against them; Bouton himself would later vividly recall noted literary critic Pete Rose yelling "Fuck you, Shakespeare!" at him from the Reds' dugout.
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Leonard, a bookish youngster, attended Syracuse University for one semester before transferring to Columbia College in New York, where one of his teachers, the literary critic Lionel Trilling, sparked his interest in Freud and psychoanalysis.
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One possible exception is the late René Girard, an erudite philosopher and literary critic famous for two overarching theories, both of which are key (if only subconsciously) to the billion-dollar pixel empires of Silicon Valley.
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The Verge reports that a number of people in the media have been affected this week, including New York Times literary critic Dwight Garner, Fox News' Brit Hume and Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery.
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The sexually open-minded Murdoch had only a few years earlier married the largely asexual literary critic John Bayley, but I knew nothing of her past, or her present, and, of course, nothing of her future.
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In his 203 essay, "Memoirs of an Ancient Activist," later revised as "The Politics of Being Queer," the author and literary critic Paul Goodman writes: In essential ways, my homosexual needs have made me a nigger.
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In July 2004, the investor and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel helped organize a small conference at Stanford University to discuss current events with his former mentor, the French literary critic and self-styled anthropologist René Girard.
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This is not to say that an Esquire editor who reads the literary critic Christopher Ricks for fun in airports has any plans to scuttle Esquire's prized long-form literary tradition to fit Twitter attention spans.
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"The Trouble With Men" reprises this method; much of it is a collage of quotes, from his touchstones like Seneca and the literary critic Leslie Fiedler but also Reddit, porn chat rooms and Bernie Madoff's mistress.
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"Last year we presented James Wood, the literary critic, for his novel, and I think in that case it is useful for the reader to be like, 'Oh, this isn't a work of literary criticism,'" says Piehl.
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Catch up fast: The TNR article by openly gay literary critic Dale Peck described Buttigieg as "the gay equivalent of Uncle Tom" and referred to the South Bend, Indiana, mayor as "Mary Pete" throughout, per NBC News.
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Empson, a literary critic, derived an intense revulsion against Christianity from studying Paradise Lost, in which God is an all-powerful tyrant who created Hell and consigned to it a large part of human- (and angel-) kind.
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Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, a nationally influential literary critic for The New York Times for three decades, who wrote some 4,000 reviews and essays, mostly for the daily column Books of The Times, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.
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Samuel Hynes, a self-described Midwestern yokel who soared as a heroic fighter pilot in World War II and returned, sobered by combat, to flourish as a scholar, teacher, literary critic and popular author, died on Oct.
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Obama has sporadically called for the release of individual human rights defenders, including the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner and literary critic Liu Xiaobo, while the State Department has issued occasional statements or made inquiries behind closed doors.
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With its relaxing of boundaries — the four walls of the room, the body of the speaker, the line segregating night and day — "Mope" resonates with literary critic Hortense Spillers's thinking of flesh as the ground for radical empathy.
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Then the teacher taught him how to read "Paradise Lost" like a literary critic—how to analyze it, how to take it apart—and Czifra realized that this was his thing, this was what he wanted to do.
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Clive James Dies at 80; Literary Critic Took His Wit to TV: A transplanted Australian, he had a zest for the knockout punch as he sparred with all things cultural, creating a pungent comic persona on British television.
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He called their creations "art brut" ("raw art"), shared his passion and findings with such collaborators as the Surrealist leader André Breton and the literary critic Jean Paulhan, and assembled a definitive collection of works representing the genre.
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In the late 80s, after Dlugos was diagnosed HIV positive, he remembers the literary critic David Kalstone, whose apartment on West 22nd Street he visited "on a winter day/in 1976" and a book he borrowed and never returned.
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Similarly, African-American poet and critic Fred Moten's recent comments in Entropy (December 19673, 21967) on the influential literary critic Marjorie Perloff's description of Michael Brown as a "huge" and "scary" black man shed some light on this problem.
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The earliest reference to crying, according to the literary critic Tom Lutz, comes from Canaanite tablets dating back to the fourteenth century BC. They describe the virgin goddess Anat, sister of the earth god Ba'al, weeping at his death.
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CreditCreditMark Mahaney for The New York Times One morning this fall, at his home high in the Berkeley hills, the literary critic and translator Robert Alter chatted with me about the dilemmas he faced while translating the Hebrew Bible.
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Neither nation explained the timing of the announcement, but analysts said Norway hoped to revive talks on a trade deal that stalled after the Nobel committee awarded the 20093 prize to Mr. Liu, a literary critic and political essayist.
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Daniel Aaron, a literary critic and historian who helped preserve the nation's cultural heritage as a co-founder of the nonprofit Library of America and who pioneered the multifaceted academic field of American studies, died on Saturday in Cambridge, Mass.
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In "The Life of John Milton," a seven-volume work published from 1859 to 1894, the literary critic David Masson conjured "avatar" to anoint poets who embodied the spirit of the time, elevating them into something like gods among men.
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And Harold Bloom, the Yale professor and literary critic who died in October, who became one of the most prominent modern-day defenders of a Western canon that at its most permissive was allowed to include the likes of Emily Dickinson.
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" Calling himself "a big fan of her writing," Ijoma Mangold, head literary critic at Die Zeit, a German national weekly newspaper, said that Ms. Feldman "brings to the German intellectual scene a Jewish intellectualism that is new, vital and fresh.
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Ann Birstein, a novelist and memoirist who recounted her bittersweet Jewish roots in New York as a rabbi's daughter in Hell's Kitchen and her turbulent marriage to the literary critic Alfred Kazin, died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan.
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In the 1993 book "Culture and Imperialism," the Palestinian-American literary critic Edward W. Said argued that Austen's novel "Mansfield Park" glorifies the grand estates of England but is silent about the West Indian slave plantations that supported many of them.
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The most expansive of the participants is the Greek-French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis; the most provocative is the French-American literary critic George Steiner, who, among other things, wonders whether the death of Jesus Christ or of Socrates was more meaningful.
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Cynthia OzickCreditCreditSasha Rudensky for The New York Times In the spring of 183, the literary critic Harold Bloom was invited to take part in "an amiable discussion of the rival claims of Judaism and the aesthetic" at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan.
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This being the country of Sartre and Descartes, where even mundane questions inspire philosophical debate, the civil servant also cited the literary critic and philosopher Roland Barthes, and told the appellate court that he had identified the smile as the symbol of neutrality.
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Ms Franklin suggests that this toxic relationship not only informed Jackson's fiction (her heroines are all "essentially motherless" ), but also prepared her for marriage to Stanley Edgar Hyman, a literary critic she met at university, who tormented her with his cruelty and infidelity.
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Geoffrey H. Hartman, a literary critic whose work took in the Romantic poets, Judaic sacred texts, Holocaust studies, deconstruction and the workings of memory — and took on the very function of criticism itself — died on March 21988 at his home in Hamden, Conn.
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For example: In the 22016 book "Culture and Imperialism," the Palestinian-American literary critic Edward W. Said argued that Austen's novel "Mansfield Park" glorifies the grand estates of England but is silent about the West Indian slave plantations that supported many of them.
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An essayist, fiction writer, teacher, scholar and literary critic — he succeeded Edmund Wilson as senior book reviewer for The New Yorker from 1966 until 1997 — Mr. Steiner both dazzled and dismayed his readers with the range and occasional obscurity of his literary references.
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Some who helped the party write and edit the old textbooks ended up in prison, including Yalqun Rozi, a prominent scholar and literary critic who helped compile a set of textbooks on Uighur literature that were used for more than a decade.
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Those butterfly wings are glued to boards to create both an indistinct portrait of Jean Paulhan, the literary critic and a fellow Art Brut supporter, as well as allover abstractions that foreshadow Damien Hirst's butterfly works, though with none of the British artist's bombast.
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"Harris, who is of mixed African, Scottish, Amerindian and possibly East Indian ancestries, and from a region that is a cultural confluence of four continents, is a believer in what he calls 'cross-culturality,' " the literary critic Maya Jaggi wrote of him in 2006.
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Harold Bloom, the prodigious literary critic who championed and defended the Western canon in an outpouring of influential books that appeared not only on college syllabuses but also — unusual for an academic — on best-seller lists, died on Monday at a hospital in New Haven.
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