Man in the Machine
Published on 1. January 2018
200 pages
978-1-61472-872-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Man in the Machine consists of lively, iconoclastic assessments of major writers and critics by Marvin Mudrick, about whom the critic Roger Sale wrote: "T. S. Eliot was not so good a reviewer as Marvin Mudrick." The book takes its title from Mudrick's introduction, in which he writes about Edgar Allan Poe's pervasive influence on modern literature: "[Poe] had the effrontery to palm off on us the silliest, least interesting, and most influential of twentieth-century critical dogmas: that books are machines with nobody inside." Writing about such masters as Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Jane Austen, Trollope, Saint-Simon, Conrad, Chekhov, and Solzhenitsyn, Mudrick shows us the pyrotechnics that can occur when a towering intellect meets characters from the past with all dogma and theories of literature tossed to the wind.
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The Man in the Machine
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Life in Print and in Criticism
- Dedication
- Preface by the Author
- I. Looking for Kellermann
- II. Lawrence
- III. Jane Austen
- IV. Johnson
- V. Trollope
- VI. Leavis on Dickens
- VII. Saint-Simon
- VIII. Conrad
- IX. Ellmann on Joyce, etc.
- X. Chekhov
- XI. Solzhenitsyn
- Acknowledgments
- The Return of Marvin Mudrick
- About Marvin Mudrick
- About William Pritchard
