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Party of Hope and the sober insights of the Party of Memory. Lucky
Jim, one feels, would not even have had a word for this.
Nevertheless, Mr. Lewis's lapses seem to me superficial enough to
deserve a closer study. The main trouble is his failure to make anything
at all of politics as a factor in the intellectual history of a nation and
a century, a mistake that not the most sanguine of the dear old
Party of Hope ever made. Emerson wrote a passionate essay on Na–
poleon. Whitman fed on Lincoln and Lincoln (intellectually ) on Daniel
Webster. Mr. Lewis comes out stoutly (if predictably ) for the Party of
I rony and very sensibly analyzes the theological and philosophical at–
mosphere within which the mighty confrontations of
Th e Scarlet L etter,
The Marble Faun, Moby Dick,
and
Billy Budd
came into being. But
the somewhat marmoreal quality of his feeling for these masterworks
derives, I should say, from a familiar sort of misapplied honesty; a de–
termination to treat fiction in language the authors themselves might
have used. The nineteenth-century writers still discussed fiction in terms
of a moralized theology. Mr. Lewis makes the mistake of assuming that
politics can safely be stuffed under the rubrics of morals and theology.
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useful to the genera l reader "
William
Bit::--I
New York Post
Joyce
The Man
The Work
The Reputation
By
Marvin Magalaner and Richard M. Kain
"Joyce is an author too original,
abominable, alluring, and a hun–
dred other things in turn, ever
to keep the peace among his in–
tellectual readers. . . . They will
certainly find a very wide range
of exploration in this comprehen–
sive treatment. . . ."
The Dublin Sunday I ndependent
"The Magalaner and Kain book is
an excellent summation of what
has been thought and said about
Joyce and his work.
It
is both an
excellent, general introduction to
Joyce, and a useful work of refer–
ence. Magala ner and Kain also
have their own insights.. . ."
Horace Reynolds
The Christian Science Monitor
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