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The Man in the Machine

By Marvin Mudrick

Book information

Publisher
Berkshire Publishing Group
Year
2018
ISBN
9781614728726, 9781614720294
LCC
PN710 .M76 2018
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4905417 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
158\158
Time added
2023-08-22 16:24:57
LiteratureModern--History and criticism.; BIO000000; NON0000

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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