In which I reflect on roads not taken in my career.
Tag Archives: Carleton College
Reflecting on Career Paths Not Taken
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Tolstoy’s Vision of Establishing Dialogue
Sympathetic listening is key to making society work. We see Kitty advocating for such in “Anna Karenina.”
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Byatt’s Babel Tower and Truth Today
A.S. Byatt counterposes Fourier and Sade in “Babel Tower.” The novel is influencing a “Truth, Education, and Democracy” session I am helping put together.
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Why I Think the Way I Think
I survey my intellectual history, especially the evolution of my thinking about literature’s impact on human behavior.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Antonio Gramsci, Beowulf, Carl Jung, Hans Robert Jauss, Harper Lee, Huckleberry Finn, intellectual history, J. Paul Hunter, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jerome Beaty, Karl Marx, Literary Theory, Madame Bovary, Mark Twain, New Criticism, Norman Holland, Percy Bysshe Shelley, racism, Reader Response Theory, reception theory, Sigmund Freud, Terry Eagleton, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tobias Smollett Comments closed
