Word: levins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JAMES JOYCE-Harry Levin-New Directions...
...review of Finnegans Wake by Harvard's Harry Levin was one of the few that gave James Joyce the sense that his book had a reader. Mr. Levin's volume on Joyce is designed to be read along with Joyce's works. On Joyce's powers of characterization, on his Swiftian moral grandeur, and on that almost Shakespearean humaneness which alone could delight the plainest of readers, he is obtuse as only a hyperintellectual can be. But on those intricate obscurities which put off most plain readers, and on Joyce as a technician and theorist...
...bitterly uncompromising, the most torturously responsible to his vocation; as a result, he was "the most self-centered of universal minds." His obsessive subjects, the city and the artist, bracketed the whole conflicted matter and spirit of modern civilization. A Portrait of the Artist is self-centered, naturalistic; and Levin tells a tantalizing little of its earlier 1,000-page version, which was far more so. The multitudinous data of Ulysses vibrated like cold made-lightning between the cathodes of the most fluoroscopic symbolism and the most granitic naturalism. In Finnegans Wake naturalism and the artist himself all but disappear...
...Spencer, associate professor of English; Harry Brown, roughly '40, whose contributions still appear spasmodically in the Advocate although he himself is in the army; Dudley Fitts '25, until this year a master at the Choate School; Delmore Schwartz, Briggs-Copeland instructor in English Composition; and John Wheelwright '21. Harry Levin's study of James Joyce is about to come off the press, and the display includes a letter from Joyce to Laughlin praising the Faculty Instructor's interpretation of some of his work...
...Freshman affair, which also drew close to 100 aspirants, five men have already reached the round of sixteen. They are Brosius, Eaton, Greenspan, Hafner, and Levin...