Chronicles Magazine Literature

Place of Asylum

Thomas Fleming - DECEMBER 01, 1987

The theater is dead, the novel dying, poetry extinct; biography is the province of graveyard ghouls, and history a battleground on which disheveled armies of academic theorists contend with hucksters and prostitutes for the fate of an entire...

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An Elegy to a Writer
Mildred Harding - DECEMBER 01, 1987
Pearl Craigie, the long forgotten novelist and playwright "John Oliver Hobbes," who died in 1906, is due for resurrection. She has haunted me for over 40 years.
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Dreams of Education
E. Christian Kopff - DECEMBER 01, 1987
The possibility of universal literacy lies in our hands. Is it really worth grasping at? The foundations of the liberal arts curriculum were born in enthusiasm and high hopes. To what extent has it outlived its usefulness? What do we want from...
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Cut-Flower Moralists
Bryce J. Christensen - DECEMBER 01, 1987
Awaiting trial for a murder he did not commit, Dmitri Karamazov is visited in jail in the closing pages of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov by the progressive intellectual Rakitin.
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Place of Asylum

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