Papers by Morris Dickstein
Up From Alienation : the Case of the New York Intellectuals
Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, 1983
The Faith of a Vicar: Reason and Morality in Rousseau's Religion
Yale French Studies, 1961
MORRIS DICKSTEIN The Faith of a Vicar: Reason and Morality in Rousseau's Religion With no gr... more MORRIS DICKSTEIN The Faith of a Vicar: Reason and Morality in Rousseau's Religion With no great writer has our knowledge of the man so nearly ob- structed and distorted our understanding of the work as with Rous- seau. The histrionic and effusively emotional Jean-Jacques of ...
An outsider in his own life
New York Times Book Review, 1997
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: MLA Members Speak
Publications of the …, Jan 1, 2000
The millennium issue grows out of a request from the White House Millennium Councilfor the MLA to... more The millennium issue grows out of a request from the White House Millennium Councilfor the MLA to join in the national com-memorations. MLA members were invited to contribute brief comments in general response to the questions listed below. Over two hundred members ...
Hallucinating the Past: "Jews without Money" Revisited
Grand Street, 1990
... One chapter begins with just such a summoning: Joey Cohen! ... "He was a bum in mold... more ... One chapter begins with just such a summoning: Joey Cohen! ... "He was a bum in moldy, wrinkled clothes saturated like a foul kitchenrag with grease," Gold says of the man who soon tries to molest little Joey Cohen. "His rusty yellow face was cov ered with sores. ...
Sunset Boulevard
Grand Street, 1988
... crowd-pleasing craftsman, sentimental for all his surface toughness, coarse and vulgar despit... more ... crowd-pleasing craftsman, sentimental for all his surface toughness, coarse and vulgar despite his European sophistication-in short, closer to a Mel Brooks than ... movies, tells William Holden that "we didn't need dialogue-we had faces," her own face is too often a garish mask of ...
American Historical Review, 1993
Going to the movies: the light fantastic.(Critical Essay)
Partisan Review, Jun 22, 2002
Wrestling with the Angel
Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics, 2012
The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell, 2007
Lionel Trilling and \the Liberal Imagination\
War, Economy, History: Politics by Other Media
Dissent, 2010
The critic and society, 1900–1950
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, 2000
The Sixties: Fictions in Fact
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 1978
... i68 Page 7. RICHARD PEARCE THE SIXTIES ... As a result, reality can no longer be termed meani... more ... i68 Page 7. RICHARD PEARCE THE SIXTIES ... As a result, reality can no longer be termed meaningful or meaningless, significant or absurd; as Robbe-Grillet puts it, it simply is. And if the fact of its being cannot be interpreted, it can arouse terror and awe. ...
Wordsworth and Solitude
The Sewanee Review, 1987
... We circle back to where we began?the unfinished sheepfold, the "straggling heap of unhew... more ... We circle back to where we began?the unfinished sheepfold, the "straggling heap of unhewn stones" which the poet set out to decipher by attaching a story to it. ... This heath, this calm, and quiet scene; The memory of what has been, And never more will be. ...
The American Historical Review, 1993
Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
The American Historical Review, 1980
... Personal politics: The roots of women's liberation in the civil rights movement and the ... more ... Personal politics: The roots of women's liberation in the civil rights movement and the new left. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... SUBJECT(S): Women; Radicalism; Feminism; Civil rights movements; Social conditions; United States. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. ...
This essay focuses on Delmore Schwartz's famous story "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities," to whic... more This essay focuses on Delmore Schwartz's famous story "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities," to which it served as an introduction.
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