Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sharply diverging from the views expressed by E. M. Forster, British novelist and critic, in Thursday's opening meeting, Professor Edgar Wind of Smith College suggested that a split between the critical and creative states of mind is not between men, but within the individual...
Wind's speech brought a question from Forster in the discussion session, asking if the critic should primarily make an "aesthetic analysis," and secondarily a "judgement of the artist's responsibility" and aims, or vice versa...
Setting the key for the three-day "Symposium on Music Criticism," the English novelist and critic discussed the basic differences between the critical and creative processes, in a forty-five minute speech that intermittently rocked the audience with laughter...
About 150 seats also are left for each of the five speaking sessions and discussions, which will include speeches by E. M. Forster, British critic and author, Virgil Thomson '22, the New York Herald Tribune's critic-composer, and Paul H. Lang, author, and professor of music at Columbia...
Kafka has also been called a theological writer, a philosophical writer, a Zionist, a Freudian, a bitter social critic, a Kafkaist. Plain readers may brush aside the tags. For them two facts are important: 1) to express the manifold, intangible anguish of life, Kafka told his greatest stories in the condition of dreams (he understood that dreams, despite their infinite fluidity of merging forms, have great narrative economy); 2) as a symbolist (Kafka's long books are called novels chiefly by reason of their length), he found for his two greatest stories, The Trial and The Castle...