gence agencies of 1975-1976 and the Iran-contra hearings of 1987 have underscored, the more distu... more gence agencies of 1975-1976 and the Iran-contra hearings of 1987 have underscored, the more disturbing reality is that secrecy permits abuses of power. In the case of FBI Director Hoover, the more disturbing reality is that despite holding an ostensibly subordinate administrative appointment Hoover succeeded in advancing his own political agenda and did so by successfully circumventing legal and constitutional restrictions. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Powers's book involves the uncritically positive reaction by most reviewers and the prominence given to reviews of his bookthereby indirectly confirming the continuing interest and fascination in Hoover's life and career. Inevitably, then, we can expect that the dearth of biographies will be replaced by a plethora—of a scope comparable to that involving the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Yet, although the FOIA has breached the principal barrier to research involving Hoover's career, until FBI records are deposited at the National Archives would-be biographers will labor under major restrictions—for the effective use of the FOIA requires that the researcher be able to identify, sight unseen, relevant records and wait the lengthy time period needed for their processing and release. Äthan Theoharis
... to past and present events function as pretexts for a mode of narration that one could charac... more ... to past and present events function as pretexts for a mode of narration that one could characterize as a forerunner of stream of consciousness ... Louis Renza ... Life, about Henry's death (he can now confess it because of his mother's death [1:306-12]) has the effect of converting Life ...
... Renza / Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and Jack London 85 ... One need not agree, then, with R... more ... Renza / Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and Jack London 85 ... One need not agree, then, with Richard Hixson's contention that because of geo-demographic options, especially ... Moreover, as Nancy Dunlap Ber-caw notes, ''by the 1850s the household had become an extrusion ...
Page 1. n Respect to otism otudies n American JOEL PORTE Page 2. Page 3. In 1827 Emerson wrote in... more Page 1. n Respect to otism otudies n American JOEL PORTE Page 2. Page 3. In 1827 Emerson wrote in his journal: "It is said to be the age of the first person singular." One could hardly ask for a more concise notation of the Romantic program. ...
Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. "a white heron" and the question of minor literature Page 4. Th... more Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. "a white heron" and the question of minor literature Page 4. The Wisconsin Project ... Carlos Rowe Page 5. 'A WHITE HERON" AND THE QUESTION OF MINOR LITERATURE LOUIS A. RENZA Page 6. Published ...
Page 1. Versions of Anne Identity Henry Ada Nate: Page 2. Page 3. ... Page 4. Page 5. Autobiograp... more Page 1. Versions of Anne Identity Henry Ada Nate: Page 2. Page 3. ... Page 4. Page 5. Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts Versions of American Identity from Henry Adams to Nate Shaw Albert E. Stone University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia 1982 Page 6. ...
... Jack Morgan, Paul Sherwin, Horace Porter, Frank Gado, Donald Sheehan, and (too long ago) Ralp... more ... Jack Morgan, Paul Sherwin, Horace Porter, Frank Gado, Donald Sheehan, and (too long ago) Ralph and Robert Colucci lent conviction to my critical instinct ... I also remain indebted to Bur-ton R. Pollin and J. Gerald Kennedy for their generous advice on Poe matters, as well as to ...
Certain passages in a handful of poems by Wallace Stevens flirt with personal self-reference. Thi... more Certain passages in a handful of poems by Wallace Stevens flirt with personal self-reference. This is the case with “Yellow Afternoon” from Parts of a World, for example. Some critics take such moments to reveal his views on contemporary social issues such as World War II; others read the same passages back into Stevens’ biographically determinable circumstances. Yet the poems in question arguably inscribe their resistance to critical-biographical as well as social-historical templates, and in fact track his moving toward a theory of autobiographical writing. In those poems, one can say that he first seeks an aesthetic particularity, but then concedes their ethical import and regards himself as a representative self. However, late Stevens poems such as “World Without Peculiarity” and “Prologues to What Is Possible” edge toward the disappearance of self altogether. Paradoxically, that defines the point where they allow for an utterly “peculiar” mode of autobiographical writing.
gence agencies of 1975-1976 and the Iran-contra hearings of 1987 have underscored, the more distu... more gence agencies of 1975-1976 and the Iran-contra hearings of 1987 have underscored, the more disturbing reality is that secrecy permits abuses of power. In the case of FBI Director Hoover, the more disturbing reality is that despite holding an ostensibly subordinate administrative appointment Hoover succeeded in advancing his own political agenda and did so by successfully circumventing legal and constitutional restrictions. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Powers's book involves the uncritically positive reaction by most reviewers and the prominence given to reviews of his bookthereby indirectly confirming the continuing interest and fascination in Hoover's life and career. Inevitably, then, we can expect that the dearth of biographies will be replaced by a plethora—of a scope comparable to that involving the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Yet, although the FOIA has breached the principal barrier to research involving Hoover's career, until FBI records are deposited at the National Archives would-be biographers will labor under major restrictions—for the effective use of the FOIA requires that the researcher be able to identify, sight unseen, relevant records and wait the lengthy time period needed for their processing and release. Äthan Theoharis
... to past and present events function as pretexts for a mode of narration that one could charac... more ... to past and present events function as pretexts for a mode of narration that one could characterize as a forerunner of stream of consciousness ... Louis Renza ... Life, about Henry's death (he can now confess it because of his mother's death [1:306-12]) has the effect of converting Life ...
... Renza / Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and Jack London 85 ... One need not agree, then, with R... more ... Renza / Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and Jack London 85 ... One need not agree, then, with Richard Hixson's contention that because of geo-demographic options, especially ... Moreover, as Nancy Dunlap Ber-caw notes, ''by the 1850s the household had become an extrusion ...
Page 1. n Respect to otism otudies n American JOEL PORTE Page 2. Page 3. In 1827 Emerson wrote in... more Page 1. n Respect to otism otudies n American JOEL PORTE Page 2. Page 3. In 1827 Emerson wrote in his journal: "It is said to be the age of the first person singular." One could hardly ask for a more concise notation of the Romantic program. ...
Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. "a white heron" and the question of minor literature Page 4. Th... more Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. "a white heron" and the question of minor literature Page 4. The Wisconsin Project ... Carlos Rowe Page 5. 'A WHITE HERON" AND THE QUESTION OF MINOR LITERATURE LOUIS A. RENZA Page 6. Published ...
Page 1. Versions of Anne Identity Henry Ada Nate: Page 2. Page 3. ... Page 4. Page 5. Autobiograp... more Page 1. Versions of Anne Identity Henry Ada Nate: Page 2. Page 3. ... Page 4. Page 5. Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts Versions of American Identity from Henry Adams to Nate Shaw Albert E. Stone University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia 1982 Page 6. ...
... Jack Morgan, Paul Sherwin, Horace Porter, Frank Gado, Donald Sheehan, and (too long ago) Ralp... more ... Jack Morgan, Paul Sherwin, Horace Porter, Frank Gado, Donald Sheehan, and (too long ago) Ralph and Robert Colucci lent conviction to my critical instinct ... I also remain indebted to Bur-ton R. Pollin and J. Gerald Kennedy for their generous advice on Poe matters, as well as to ...
Certain passages in a handful of poems by Wallace Stevens flirt with personal self-reference. Thi... more Certain passages in a handful of poems by Wallace Stevens flirt with personal self-reference. This is the case with “Yellow Afternoon” from Parts of a World, for example. Some critics take such moments to reveal his views on contemporary social issues such as World War II; others read the same passages back into Stevens’ biographically determinable circumstances. Yet the poems in question arguably inscribe their resistance to critical-biographical as well as social-historical templates, and in fact track his moving toward a theory of autobiographical writing. In those poems, one can say that he first seeks an aesthetic particularity, but then concedes their ethical import and regards himself as a representative self. However, late Stevens poems such as “World Without Peculiarity” and “Prologues to What Is Possible” edge toward the disappearance of self altogether. Paradoxically, that defines the point where they allow for an utterly “peculiar” mode of autobiographical writing.
Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation:: a Reading of the 1965-67 Lyrics, 2017
This book expresses an unorthodox take on the Dylan lyrics in question. The argument assumes that... more This book expresses an unorthodox take on the Dylan lyrics in question. The argument assumes that the songs express not a conscious but the composing Dylan's sub-conscious spiritual drive toward facing the erasure of self-identity--which I term the "existential real." This amounts to a spiritual contextualization of existence per se minus any religionist reference. Many of the book's readings admittedly risk a "common sense" or more plausible understanding of the songs; yet strive toward a consistent interpretive relation to them that ambiguates such understandings.
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