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...fame, mind you. Not even talent, really, though Gene and Dean are no slouches at the music. Their talent has been subverted to a higher purpose, what Sacvan Berkovitch might call the Myth of Rock. While other bands try purge themselves of the excesses of rock and roll, Ween wallows in inane lyrics and guitar heroism and overblown sound effects. They don't deny that rock is bullshit; their music celebrates it. On vinyl, this means double albums, and songs imitating anyone and everyone: their first album, God Ween Satan--the Oneness, features an eight-minute Prince cover...
Carswell Professor of English and American Literature and Language Sacvan Bercovitch's "Myth of America," an English class making its first appearance in the Core, Pulled into the number nine spot with 328 students...
Literature and Arts A-66, "The Myth of America," is new to the Core as Carswell Professor of English and American Language and of comparative Literature Sacvan Bercovitch's version of former departmental course English 177y...
Literature and Arts A-66, "The Myth of America," is new to the Core as Carswell Professor of English and American Language and of Comparative Literature Sacvan Bercovitch's version of former departmental course English 177y...
Next year, after Emerson expert and English Chairman Joel Porte leaves the University to accept a fulltime post at Cornell University next year, the department will have only one full-time Americanist on the faculty. Professor of English Sacvan Bercovitch, who was lured away from Columbia University in 1983, will have to hold down the fort alone next year. Ironically, he came to Harvard saying he hoped to lead a renaissance of the study of American culture...