Nonfiction
Spring 2013
James Joyce, Walther Ruttmann, and City Symphonies
One of Ulysses’ earliest reviewers, in the Evening Standard of 1922, briskly consigned the novel to “the new fashionable kinematographic vein,” and then in plain-man-in-the-street tones called that vein “very […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1988
Black and White and Crimson and Purple and Wild
Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning. New York: Knopf, 1987. 300 pages. $19.95. In one of his admirable ghost stories, M. R. James presents a minor character as a […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1986
“Iliad” and “Odyssey,” Object and Performance
The ambitious undergraduates who take courses in the European literary tradition, believing in their innocence that they can be taught such a thing, scarcely need help in characterizing the epics […]