Sublime Woolf was written in a burst of enthusiasm after the author, Daniel T. O'Hara was finally able to teach Virginia Woolf's modernist classics again. This book focuses on those uncanny visionary passages when in elaborating 'a moment of being, ' as Woolf terms it, supplements creatively the imaginative resonance of the scene
Sublime Woolf was written in a burst of enthusiasm after the author, Daniel T. O'Hara was finally able to teach Virginia Woolf's modernist classics ag...
Daniel T. O'Hara reads the career of Trilling as a single, completely conmprehensive work of self-fashioning. The intention of such work, says O'Hara, from the beginning and throughout Trilling's intelectual life, was to create a self that, when confronted with the great achievement of another mind, was capable of imaginative sympathy and not solely resentful critique. In order to reach that goal, however, Trilling had to adopt on e of the conventional masks available to the intellectual in modern culture and adapt it to his needs and to those of his liberal time.
Daniel T. O'Hara reads the career of Trilling as a single, completely conmprehensive work of self-fashioning. The intention of such work, says O'Hara,...
It is one of the ironies of contemporary literary study that as it has moved toward greater interdisciplinarity it has grown sceptical of the aesthetic. This anthology works to reassert the continuing relevance of the aesthetic and to reintegrate it into the widening repertoire of contemporary literary critical practices.
It is one of the ironies of contemporary literary study that as it has moved toward greater interdisciplinarity it has grown sceptical of the aestheti...
Writer Henry James (1843-1916) was born in America but preferred to live in Europe; he finally become a British subject near the end of his life. His status as a permanent outsider is responsible for the recurring themes in his writing dealing with European sophistication (decadence) compared to American lack of sophistication (or innocence). He is respected in modern times for his psychological insight, for being able to reveal his characters' deepest motivations. These 11 essays, along with an introduction and an afterword, examine James's work through the prism of the author's latest...
Writer Henry James (1843-1916) was born in America but preferred to live in Europe; he finally become a British subject near the end of his life. His ...
"Empire Burlesque" traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O Hara argues that globalization has had a markedly negative impact on American cultural criticism, circumscribing both its material and imaginative potential, reducing much of it to absurdity. By highlighting the spectacle of its own self-parody, O Hara aims to shock U.S. cultural criticism back into a sense of ethical responsibility.
"Empire Burlesque" presents several interrelated analyses through readings of a range of writers and cultural figures...
"Empire Burlesque" traces the emergence of the contemporary global context within which American critical identity is formed. Daniel T. O Hara argues ...
In "The Art of Reading as a Way of Life: On Nietzsche s Truth "Daniel T. O Hara traces critically the current reception and translation of Nietzsche s corpus and then some of Nietzsche s boldest textual experiments in the art of reading as a way of life, including those in "The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Anti-Christ, "and "Ecce Homo."
The shape of this critical tracing begins, however, in the middle of his career with "The Gay Science" and" "moves on to "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," which Nietzsche believed was the central work of his life. It then...
In "The Art of Reading as a Way of Life: On Nietzsche s Truth "Daniel T. O Hara traces critically the current reception and translation of Nietzsch...
