Expanding Eyes: The Newsletter
Today’s newsletter is a celebration. Northrop Frye was arguably the greatest, at least the most influential theorist of the imagination in our time, and Robert D. Denham has just published a massive volume, the capstone of a fifty-year career, providing evidence that the verb sh…
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Some time back, casting about for a reason that roughly a third of the American population has been swept up in a collective mental illness, I suggeste…
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So what exactly is the imagination? In a newsletter that has been running for months, you might think it time to venture a definition of our key themat…
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A short time ago, on reaching the age of 80, Jane Brody published an essay called “How to Age Gracefully” in the New York Times. Feedback on the discus…
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To those interested in my theme of imagination as the home of human life I have recommended the accessible and delightful little book The Educated Imag…
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In my last newsletter, commemorating Labor Day, I spoke of the cult of overwork in the United States, contrasting it with the failed prophecy in the 19…
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On Monday, the United States celebrates Labor Day, designated a national holiday in 1894, celebrating the dignity and worth of labor and the working cl…
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This week I returned to teaching at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where I was a student from 1969 to 1973 and a ful…
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