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...word and those who produce it—take a subsidiary role to the abilities that make him memorable. His dark, biting sense of irony, stunning range of characterization and voice, and subtle manipulation of the deepest and most unexpected pathos are all on display. “Nazi Literature?? may not be Bolaño’s most important work, but it’s enjoyable and meaningful enough to be read alongside his best.The book is divided into 14 sections, ranging from “Forerunners and Figures of the Anti-Enlightenment?...
...this move to Washington—it’s been happening since my grandfather’s time,” says Ellery Sedgwick III. “Starting in the late 19th century and accelerating under my grandfather during World War I the focus shifted away from literature??it no longer had a literary core...
...literature. The Yale page lumps writers, actors, and other artists into the catch-all category of “History, Literature, Art, and Music,” an anorexic section feebly listing the few bright bulbs that have managed to emerge from New Haven. The Nobel Prize for literature??s international trend necessitates that neither Harvard nor Yale has had many literature Nobel laureates, but Harvard’s 1.5 still beats Yale’s singleton. Yale has 1930 prize-winner Sinclair Lewis, while Harvard alum T.S. Eliot ’09 won in 1948. Playwright Eugene...
...improvement with the current information systems. “Why can’t all dissertations be made fully accessible online? Why can’t we have lecture notes, and reserved reading, and course packs, and all kinds of what’s called ‘gray literature??...why can’t we make everything, this whole world of scholarly communication available free?” asks Darnton. “It seems to me that the new information society of the 21st century should be open, accessible to everyone, and that Harvard should take...
...that part of a student’s whole education which looks first of all to his life as a responsible human being and citizen.” The new curriculum that the Whitebook proposed would have required courses with names like “Great Texts in Literature?? and “Western Thought and Institutions...