Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman ReaderUniversity of Illinois Press, 1998 - Počet stran: 211 In this collection of his essays and a sampling of his letters, John Jay Chapman (1862-1933) embraces the world at large. Predicting the depersonalization of twentieth-century society, Chapman argues that a civilization based upon a commerce which is in all its parts corruptly managed will present a social life which is unintelligent and mediocre, made up of people afraid of each other, whose ideas are shopworn, whose manners are self-conscious. Chapman should be studied more carefully and at full length, Edmund Wilson wrote in 1929, but in the meantime, what is most important is to have his essays made accessible.... If his books were reprinted and read, we should recognize that we possess in John Jay Chapman -- by reason of the intensity of the spirit, the brilliance of the literary gift and the continuity of the thought which they embody -- an American classic. Jacques Barzun has observed, We have produced very few great critics, but John Jay Chapman equals any of his foreign contemporaries. An American original, Chapman is a tonic to cynicism and an antidote to a society gone flaccid and complacent. |
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... scholar ; but he belonged to that type and species of scholarship of which Bishop Percy and Walter Scott are examples , the species to whom literature is food and drink . To some modern scholars , literature is a dead body , or at least ...
... scholar ; but he belonged to that type and species of scholarship of which Bishop Percy and Walter Scott are examples , the species to whom literature is food and drink . To some modern scholars , literature is a dead body , or at least ...
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... scholar at a uni- versity and aim at him from boyhood . They persuade their par- ents to send them to college . They are bored and fatigued by ev- erything that life offers except this thing . Now , society does not create this hunger ...
... scholar at a uni- versity and aim at him from boyhood . They persuade their par- ents to send them to college . They are bored and fatigued by ev- erything that life offers except this thing . Now , society does not create this hunger ...
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... Scholar . It was the first application of his views to the events of his day , written and delivered in the heat of early manhood while his extraordinary powers were at their height . It moves with a logical progression of which he soon ...
... Scholar . It was the first application of his views to the events of his day , written and delivered in the heat of early manhood while his extraordinary powers were at their height . It moves with a logical progression of which he soon ...
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