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| Introduction: The Limits of Not Quite | ||
| Sir Thomas More: A Man for One Season | 3 | |
| Jane Austen's Heroic Consciousness | 16 | |
| The All and the If: God and Metaphor in Melville | 26 | |
| Half Against Flaubert | 41 | |
| Gogol's Realism | 52 | |
| What Chekhov Meant by Life | 63 | |
| Knut Hamsun's Christian Perversions | 75 | |
| Virginia Woolf's Mysticism | 89 | |
| Thomas Mann: The Master of the Not Quite | 103 | |
| D. H. Lawrence's Occultism | 116 | |
| T. S. Eliot's Christian Anti-Semitism | 128 | |
| George Steiner's Unreal Presence | 143 | |
| Iris Murdoch's Philosophy of Fiction | 159 | |
| Thomas Pynchon and the Problem of Allegory | 169 | |
| Against Paranoia: The Case of Don DeLillo | 180 | |
| John Updike's Complacent God | 192 | |
| The Monk of Fornication: Philip Roth's Nihilism | 200 | |
| Toni Morrison's False Magic | 213 | |
| Julian Barnes and the Problem of Knowing Too Much | 222 | |
| W. G. Sebald's Uncertainty | 232 | |
| The Broken Estate: The Legacy of Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold | 242 | |
| Acknowledgments | 265 | |
| Index | 267 |
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Daniel Ostrander
reviewed The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief on May 16, 2011
The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
The scholarly rigor of the first essay, "Sir Thomas More: A Man for One Season," surprises. The essay is a review of Peter Ackroyd's biography of Sir Thomas. By way of a heady recapitulation of More's life and times, Wood suggests that Ackroyd's book is little more than hagiography, though he's careful never to use that word. The second essay "Shakespeare in Bloom" is no less kind. (But then kindness is not really what we are looking for here; that can always be got from one of my many books on compassion.) It looks at the Shakespearean criticism of eminence grise Harold Bloom. Calling his approach essentially a recapitulation of the dated "character criticism" of Dr Samuel Johnson, Wm. Hazlitt and A.C. Bradley. (Apparently, Bloom is vociferously disliked by the trendier Shakespeare critics of today; something I did not know, not being an academic.) Wood puts Bloom's work in context with a brief discussion of how other schools of criticism, such as New Criticism and New Historicism, view Shakespeare. Very interesting. Will continue my comments here as I sporadically read on.
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