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Pope Francis
I should have known this would happen, but I never considered it. And now it's time to say good bye to Pope Francis. I have…
The Spirit of Comedy Without Humor
Harold Kaplan entitled his essay on Madame Bovary 'the seriousness of comedy'. In his view, and that of other literary critics cited by him, this…
Can Democrats Criticize the Enlightenment?
Can democrats criticize the Enlightenment? In Harold Kaplan's analysis of modern literature, he doesn't criticize the Enlightenment (late 17th to early 19th century), but he…
Modernism’s Contempt for the Human Intellect
The skeptical mode is the source of modernism's contempt for the human intellect. Or maybe it's better to say modernism's contempt for the human's ability…
The Crisis of Knowledge
In this series, I want to share my thoughts about Harold Kaplan's book, The Passive Voice1. Kaplan deals with several related literary topics, but they…
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