Sallies of the MindRoutledge, 17 apr. 2018 - 253 pagini Francis Fergusson was one of the foremost American literary critics and scholars of the twentieth century. A man of the theater as well as a man of letters, Fergusson's versatility and mastery traversed a wide range of intellectual disciplines. As George Core notes: "one of the most remarkable aspects of Fergusson's criticism is that it stands comfortably, at ease, with the best work stemming from diverse schools of criticism that are sometimes in conflict—the New Critics, the New York intellectuals, the myth critics and various distinguished critics of the modern theater." Though allied with the New Critics, Fergusson was intellectually capacious enough to be associated with many critical schools of vastly different persuasions. R.W.B. Lewis once remarked of this respected original that "his critical theories and practices possess a severely beautiful purity." Sallies of the Mind is a collection of Fergusson's essays drawn from a variety of virtually unattainable works. It incorporates Fergusson's representative criticism on such major authors as Dante, Shakespeare, James, and Eliot; on myths as well as action; on the modern stage; and on the modern novel. Essays in this collection include: "T.S. Eliot and His Impersonal Theory of Art" "Humanism" "Maritain's Creative Intuition" "Two Perspectives on European Literature" "Two Acts from Dante's Drama of the Mind" "The Divine Comedy as a Bridge across Time" "Hamlet" "Measure for Measure" "Eugene O'Neill" "Exiles and Ibsen's Work" "Oedipus According to Freud, Sophocles, and Freud" "The Theater of Paul Valery" "D.H. Lawrence's Sensibility" and "The Drama in The Golden Bowl." Francis Fergusson's criticism endures not only owing to its originality, depth, and range but also to its classically austere clarity of style. Looking at the present-day critical scene, we see few who match Fergusson's intelligence, learning, and verve. Sallies of the Mind is a tribute to his legacy as well as to the themes he treats. |
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... Things Not Seen (1973) IV 10. Eugene O'Neill (1930) 11. Exiles and Ibsen's Work (1932) 12. T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Drama (1952) 13. On the Edge of Broadway (1954) 14. The Theater of Paul Valéry (1960) 15. Oedipus According to Freud ...
... thing,” Francis wrote to Paul Horgan. And on a hot afternoon in the summer of 1925, Francis told me, he was in Heidelberg, lying on his bed in a hotel room, reading Kant, when his strongwilled mother appeared unannounced and commanded ...
... things, by which it is fed, that its existence depends.” That description fits so exactly the impression one gets from Mr. Eliot's verse as well as his prose, that one seems justified in concluding, even in the absence of any specific ...
... thing in the world for Mr. Eliot is art; no wonder his theme can only be the struggle to create, and that he presents the spectacle of a man doomed to sterility in the effort to make art out of art. So that we may at last say that the ...
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Two Perspectives on European Literature 1954 | |
Two Acts from Dantes Drama of the Mind 1951 | |
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The Divine Comedy as a Bridge across Time 1965 | |
The Analogy of Action 1940 | |
Purgatorio 16 and Measure for Measure 1951 | |
T S Eliots Poetry and Drama 1952 | |
On the Edge of Broadway 1954 | |
The Theater of Paul Valéry 1960 | |
Oedipus According to Freud Sophocles and Cocteau 1975 | |
H Lawrences Sensibility 1933 | |
The Drama in The Golden Bowl 1934 | |
Three Novels 1954 | |
Myth and the Literary Scruple 1956 | |
Poetry as Evidence of Things Not Seen 1973 | |
Eugene ONeill 1930 | |
Exiles and Ibsens Work 1932 | |
The Notion of Action 1964 | |
Index | |