A few years ago, extremists on the campus were trying to prevent students from listening to anyone who would defend U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. More recently the chief targets of such harassment have been speakers who claimed a genetic …
Mr. Swan’s distinction between the “order” in our everyday perception and the “disorder” aroused by art is compatible with my own statements. And I agree with him also in believing that literature provides no special sort of knowledge. Our disagreement, …
For the past twenty years or so, the study of literature has been dominated by formal analysis. We have been told to examine carefully the structure, imagery, and tone of a literary work, so that we can see the novel …
