Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eclectic Scholar. Such mordant views have made Goffman something of a maverick in his field. His work has been attacked as overspeculative, his scholarship as too eclectic; in illustrating a point, he is as likely to quote from a novel as from a sociological text. Goffman has also been accused of insulating his theories with purely supportive evidence. Then too, there may be some unexpressed envy on the part of his sociological peers about the fact that Goffman can write well; although his books have pages of jargon, they are enlightened with passages of dazzling clarity...
...action by the school board on which Eliot sits as a member. More important to Snow's long experiment in linked fiction, the other accused woman is the niece of George Passant, Eliot's old friend and the central figure of Strangers and Brothers (1940), the first novel in the sequence...
...Sleep of Reason is the tenth of the Strangers and Brothers novels, Lord Snow's melancholy, quasi-autobiographical saga of the rise of Lewis Eliot from lower-middle-class obscurity to knighthood. In many of the previous novels, Sir Lewis' empirical eye focused acutely on the intricate and polished parquetry of the English Establishment as he proceeded through the corridors of power. In The Sleep of Reason, that same cool eye is cast on more amorphous matters as the author struggles with formulations about such things as free will, responsibility and human nature. Recently C. P. Snow informed...
...number of fashionable speculations-about the crime of punishment, about the existence of evil and the nature of man. Working them thematically for all they are worth, Snow has produced a book that is bound to provoke a great deal of reflection-but that is also a very bad novel...
Significantly, one of the few places where the novel threatens to break through and touch Eliot's life (and the reader's) in some recognizably profound and moving way occurs as he ponders a discussion he is having with his wife Margaret about the crime, and likens it to an earlier conversation he had with one of the murderers. "There had been questions pounding behind my tongue . . . What did she do? What did they say to each other? What was it like to do it? For me in the jail, for Margaret in our drawing room, those questions...