They suggested changes that made my books better than they would have been, and did so with grace as well as wisdom. Time and again, I looked to Robert Alter and Frederick Crews of Berkeley for their corrections of my work. At Northwestern I profited much from dialogues with Leonard Barkan, Sanford Goldberg, Robert Gundlach, Gerald Graff, Lawrence Lipking, Barbara Newman, Mark Ratner, Kenneth Seeskin, and my colleagues in the Slavic department. The late Elliot Mossman’s encouragement kept me going at dark moments. At the University of Pennsylvania, Alfred Rieber contributed to my awareness of the ways in which disciplinary presuppositions can blind one. I did not meet the late Thomas Greene until I was an assistant professor, when his ideas about anachronism helped direct my thinking. As a graduate student at Yale and long after, I learned from the late Victor Erlich and Martin Price, and from Robert Louis Jackson and Michael Holquist. Elizabeth Allen, Nava Cohen, the late Helen Brenner, and Gayle Washlow-Kaufman helped many times in ways far beyond what I had any right to expect.
The same is true of the late Stephen Toulmin, with whom I co-taught three courses at Northwestern University. I often discussed time, contingency, and the unpredictable with the late Aron Katsenelinboigen, who remains one of the great intellectual - VIII. David Bethea suggested I do this volume and was tireless in guiding it through Caryl Emerson encouraged me and Sharona Vedol made it all happen. Jane Morson helped me develop many primitive insights. Emily Morson and Alexander Morson were always in my thoughts. It owes most to my wife Katharine Porter, who read every line and was there for me every moment. *** Developing ideas that have been with me since the early 1980s, this book reflects debts of many kinds to several people. Alicia Chudo published a version of “An Onegin of Our Times” in Formations vol. And so the only essay that can could arguably called a reprint of one that appeared earlier is “Contingency, Games, and Wit,” which originally appeared in New Literary History’s special issue on play, vol. I eventually decided to combine different essays into a single coherent statement, drawing on already published ideas while making connections between them and tracing new implications. But when I sat down to do so, I found that my method of thinking through a problem-keep approaching it from different angles and see what ideas emerge-created a lot of overlap from essay to essay. When Academic Studies Press asked me to put together a collection of my theoretical essays, I thought the task would be easy: just pick out the ones that have (or in my view should have) attracted the most interest.
What Is Wit? Chapter Eight: Contingency, Games, and Wit
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What Is Literary Education? Chapter Seven: Novelistic Empathy, and How to Teach It Misanthropology in Verse: An Onegin of Our Times (by Alicia Chudo) Misanthropology, Continued: Disgust, Violence, and More on Voyeurism (by Alicia Chudo) 1/ Another Look at Voyeurism 2/ Identification 3/ Laughter and DisgustĬhapter Six. Misanthropology: Voyeurism and Human Nature (by Alicia Chudo)Ĭhapter Five. The Prosaics of Process 1/ The Vision of Poetics and Product 2/ The Counter-Tradition: Presentness and Process 3/ Outlining a Prosaics of Process Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface (by David Bethea) Abbreviations Introduction Published by Academic Studies Press in 2013 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135, USA For Jonathan and Fran Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: A catalog record for this book as available from the Library of Congress.Ĭopyright © 2013 Academic Studies Press All rights reserved ISBN 978-1-61811-161-6 (hardback)Ĭover design by Ivan Grave On the cover: “Harvest at Black Walnut Inn,” photograph by Steven Blumenkranz, 2008. Prosaics and Other Provocations Empathy, Open Time, And The Novel G a ry S au l M o r so n
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