Morris Dickstein (February 23, 1940 – March 24, 2021) was an American literary scholar, cultural historian, professor, essayist, book critic, and public...
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Stoner has two primary passions: knowledge and love. According to Morris Dickstein, "he fails at both." Love is also a widely recognized theme in Stoner...
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Dickstein is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Mindi Dickstein, American lyricist and librettist Morris Dickstein (1940–2021), American...
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emphatically, "Absolutely. My God, to read without joy is stupid." The critic Morris Dickstein has noted that while Butcher's Crossing, Stoner, and Augustus are each...
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Sixties is a 1977 book by Morris Dickstein on the American 1960s. Cole, Lewis (1977). "Second Thoughts: In Search of Dickstein's Decade". Change. 9 (10):...
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"Life will go on as it has always gone on – that is, badly". Academic Morris Dickstein has suggested there is "a touch of Orwell himself in this creature's...
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Domain Day 2024 | Duke University School of Law". web.law.duke.edu. Morris Dickstein (6 September 2010). Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the...
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boundaries with a new approach to political journalism. The literary critic Morris Dickstein, wrote that Thompson had learned to "approximate the effect of mind-blasting...
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Chicago) Norman Birnbaum[citation needed] Elliot E. Cohen Midge Decter Morris Dickstein Leslie Fiedler Nathan Glazer[citation needed] Clement Greenberg Paul...
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Literature Compass. 8 (11): 840–855. doi:10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00841.x. Morris Dickstein (August 3, 1997). "An Outsider to His Own Life". The New York Times...
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the character of Maureen. In The New York Times Book Review, critic Morris Dickstein compared the novel to its predecessor Portnoy's Complaint: No writer...
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Granville Waiters, 60, professional basketball player (b. 1961) March 24 Morris Dickstein, 81, literary scholar (b. 1940) Jessica Walter, 80, actress (b. 1941)...
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Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. p. 953. ISBN 0-15-503770-6. Morris Dickstein, "An Outsider to His Own Life", Books, The New York Times, August 3...
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criticism]", acknowledging that to others it "may prove a disadvantage". Morris Dickstein, writing for The New York Sun, called it "a dizzying commentary on...
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differed greatly from his own). In another take on Schwartz's fiction, Morris Dickstein wrote that "Schwartz's best stories are either poker-faced satirical...
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Literature ed. by David Scott Kastan. Oxford University Press, 2006. Morris Dickstein, "An Outsider to His Own Life", Books, The New York Times, August 3...
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the Cold War. Communication & Society, 25(1), pp. 113–136. (2012). Morris Dickstein (Spring 1988). "Sunset Boulevard" Grand Street Vol. 7 No. 3 p. 180...
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essay titled The Aesthetics of Fright, cultural historian and essayist Morris Dickstein compared Leatherface to Michael Myers of the Halloween franchise. Writing...
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Habermas, Daniel Dennett, Stanley Fish, David Bromwich, Simon Blackburn, Morris Dickstein & others, Slate Magazine, June 18, 2007. "The Inspiring Power of the...
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There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, Oxford University Press, 1994. Ed. Morris Dickstein, Duke University Press, 1998 Baldwin, James Mark (ed., 1901–1905),...
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the Depression. Avant-garde music had lost what cultural historian Morris Dickstein calls "its buoyant experimental edge" and the national mood toward...
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suggesting that many student activists might have shared the view of Morris Dickstein, to whom it work meant, "not some ontological breakthrough for human...
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(2011). Departures : Memoirs. Foreword by Adam Gopnik; introduction by Morris Dickstein. New York: Other Press. Gopnik, Adam (February 14, 2011). "The information :...
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Rediscovery of a Great Novelist", in The Canadian Jewish Chronicle by Harold U. Ribalow "Memory Unbound", by Morris Dickstein in "The Three Penny Review"...
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disease. He had strong political views that he would ferociously defend. Morris Dickstein, a professor at Queens College referred to Howe as a "counterpuncher...
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Dylan Thomas, Henry Miller and William Carlos Williams. However, Morris Dickstein would later opine that his "maverick role seemed strictly literary"...
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title, A Fire on the Moon. Initial reviews of the book were mixed. Morris Dickstein in The New York Times Book Review suggested the book was overwritten...
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eminently readable."[citation needed] In The New York Times Book Review, Morris Dickstein wrote "It would be hard to find a fairer or more balanced account of...
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the South Carolina House of Representatives (1955–1958, 1967–1972). Morris Dickstein, 81, American literary scholar, complications from Parkinson's disease...
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student of political theorist Marshall Barman as well as Literary Critic Morris Dickstein and poet Matvei Yankelevich. He studied Human Rights Law at the EIUC...
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