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...Modern Language Association of America awarded its seventh annual Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies to Bernbaum Professor of Literature Dorrit Cohn last week...
...prize honors Cohn's most recent book of comparative literary theory, The Distinction of Fiction...
...Cohn's work was praised for "challeng[ing] current arguments that eradicate the distinction between fiction and nonfiction," in the selection committee's statement. "Her arguments, rich and encompassing, are presented with elegance and concision...
...Cohn adds "I think it would be very limiting to interpret those murals as Rothko's depiction of the Passion. I never got the sense that that was his limit on their significance and I never got the sense that he wanted to put into words their explicit significance." After all, Rothko himself later pointed out that the murals' crimson backgrounds refer to the "spirit of Harvard," and the subject matter of the murals is a series of H's, contracting and expanding in rhythmic progression...
...Which leads us back to the present: Standing in front of Panel #2, the only uncovered, respiring portion of the series, the other four hang frozen beside and behind it, shourded in plastic. Panel #2's current blue hues look somewhat dolorous. But Ms. Cohn offers assurance "that the ensemble as a whole still works" even if some unity is lost with the fading. "They still have the solemn resonance that Rothko wanted. A very inspiring ensemble still. Yes, they are damaged, but no, they are not wrecked...