Literary characters, according to Peter Brooks, help us understand “the most elusive and consequential issues of our limited human existence.
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Literary Characters, Mirrors of the Soul
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To Understand Your Life, Read Novels
Theorist Peter Brooks contends that it is through novels that we find shape and meaning to our lives.
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How Capitalism Threatens Art
The Frankfurt School studied how culture gets subsumed by capitalism. We need to start reading Adorno and Benjamin again.
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It’s the End of the Book as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
I crossed the great divide this Christmas and bought my wife a Kindle e-book. I have to admit that convenience played a role in my decision. Does it make it any more excusable that the first book she downloaded was a classic (The Brothers Karamazov)? I didn’t think so. And here’s a problem I can report. […]
