On Literary Criticism and Political Action

On Literary Criticism and Political Action

It was a pleasure to read Lawrence W. Hyman’s statement: “It is not a moral direction that we must look for in literature but a disturbance.” Hyman provides an exciting way for
handling moralistic objections—from Left and Right—that art is too often dissociated from our moral and political concerns. Since, however, he styles himself a contextualist critic, Hyman must be aware that with this idea of art he is keeping rather strange company…

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