Amos's River of Justice

Series: An Approach to Modern Fiction

  • The Spirit of Comedy Without Humor

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    Sheila Marler
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    Reading Time: 8 minutesIn Kaplan’s view, and that of other literary critics cited by him, this work is a ‘special form of dry comedy’. Its effect is the spirit of comedy without humor.

  • Modernism’s Contempt for the Human Intellect

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    Sheila Marler
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    Reading Time: 11 minutesThe 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 to know anything. Harold Kaplan1 says we have come to believe this mode is the strongest trait of an enlightened modern consciousness. Metaphysics might seem to be…

  • The Crisis of Knowledge

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    Sheila Marler
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    Reading Time: 5 minutesIn 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 all arise from the crisis of knowledge in modern intellectual history. I have some doubts about my part in this endeavor, which I’ll state briefly in this…

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