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...capture.Wright’s attempt to understand life through words draws him to songs from the folk tradition. His poems often go beyond imitating folk rhythms and diction to quoting directly from songs. Pieces of lyrics waft through his poems as they cross the narrator’s consciousness??for example “Rhinestone Cowboy,” the title of a song by Glen Campbell, and “Such a wonderful spot, there’s coffee and bananas and the temperature’s hot,” from a song by Freddy...
...Brothers Karamazov” and Zola’s “L’Assommoir” in translation, is a good start. According to the syllabus, students study the novel in its different forms—as a “novel of consciousness?? or a “novel of society,” for example. Students who aren’t fluent in Russian or French and would never have taken a departmental class studying these authors in the original language are given the opportunity to explore new cultures and ideas.But classes like this...
...academic freedom can scarcely claim to be the unsightly but necessary garb for those who search for truth. University campuses have been radically politicized, with progressive departments such as the committee on degrees in studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies implicitly aspiring to “raise consciousness?? and produce the next cadre of leftist activists. Outside speakers—like President Ahmadinejad at Columbia, Mohammed Khatami at Harvard, and the plagiarizing former professor Ward Churchill at Hamilton College, although the last was ultimately cancelled—contribute nothing but the universities’ effective condemnation...
...tone of the racial conflict had reached a new peak the year before, when Steve Biko—the 30-year-old activist behind the “Black Consciousness?? movement—was killed in police custody...
...schools of psychology and philosophy than those of the modern era, and though his studies of pragmatism and consciousness were foundational in their fields, a group of chatting Harvard professors does not a maelstrom make. While he may be the source of the term “stream of consciousness?? as applied to mental processes, James had little patience for formal innovations in art and literature, even scorning much of his brother Henry’s work as overly experimental. Despite these flaws, Richardson’s book will occupy a comfortable place at the center of contemporary...