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About halfway through his essay "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," George Orwell offers a startling explanation for Leo Tolstoy's notorious antipathy towards 
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For Elizabeth Hardwick, literary criticism had to be up there with its subjects; real literature should elicit criticism worthy of the achievement in question. We got that from her straight off. The kind of modern literary criticism she was talking about—Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Edmund Wilson, Randall Jarrell, R.P. Blackmur, John Berryman, F.W. Dupee, Mary McCarthy—was as stimulating as the work it was exploring. Then, too, she wanted us to take seriously the essay as a form. The American essay—Thoreau, Emerson—was an important part of American history.
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The essayist Darryl Pinckney’s most recent book is a novel, Black Deutschland. He is the editor of The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick. (October 2017)
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October 5, 2017 1:51 PM
The essayist Darryl Pinckney’s most recent book is a novel, Black Deutschland. He is the editor of The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick. (October 2017)
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Gone is the task of providing “equipment for living,” in the words of Kenneth Burke, one of Richards’s American contemporaries and soul mates. Instead, the discipline or profession of literary studies aims to produce knowledge about the literature or societies of the past, with no overt purpose beyond the circulation and transmission of this knowledge to a group of similarly trained specialists. Even though the knowledge produced is rich in political content — and is often deliberately political — the use value of that political content must be denied or covered up by vague Enlightenment equivalencies between knowledge and progress at the very moment it appears as professional work.
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