Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Premature Hysteria. By seeing American history in a special perspective, Hacker perceives the tragedy of a nation divided between its transcendent dream of itself and its present quality and affluence. If America's rewards are turning into a kind of curse, Hacker understands that it is because the country...
BOTH IN comparison with the novel on which it was based, as well as on its own transcendent internal elements, Russell's Women in Love is something less than adequate, Even taken as the simpler story of four individuals in and out of love, it is far from satisfactory. Audiences...
Brigid Brophy, the Irish controversialist, classics scholar, champion of animal rights and vegetarian, continues her war on the 20th century. In Transit, her sixth novel, takes the fight underground, where it is more likely to be seen. The book is a highly cerebral contrivance that cannibalizes such literary conceits as...