Nabokov’s aestheticism in the 1960s tried to separate literature from history.
Tag Archives: Vladimir Nabokov
Arguing against Lit for Lit’s Sake
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England’s Most Humane Novel
A new bibliomemoir on “Middlemarch” shows a book shaping a life.
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Novels: Training Ground for Citizenship
Novels have an inherently liberal dimension in that they get us to identify with people very different from us.
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Paterno’s Rapist Associate and Mr. Hyde
“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” warns us that we are in danger of becoming monsters ourselves if we don’t hold on to our humanity when responding to monsters like alleged child molester Jerry Sandusky, close associate of Coach Joe Paterno.
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Moments of Perfect Being
Today we head home after having spent a delicious week in our Maine cottage with our sons Darien and Toby, along with our daughter-in-law Betsy and Toby’s girlfriend Candice. We immersed ourselves in memory and tradition while we were here. Portraits of my great-great grandparents John and Remember Berry Swett, are on the wall, as […]
