Frederick Crews
Frederick Crews
Frederick Campbell Crewsis an American essayist and literary critic. professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Crews is the author of numerous books, including The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James, E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanismand The Sins of the Fathers, a discussion of the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He received popular attention for The Pooh Perplex, a book of satirical essays parodying contemporary casebooks. Initially a proponent of...
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as evidence that the remembered event actually occurred.
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Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.
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"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.
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Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits
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The recovery movementis not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intendedaudience is women who aren't at all sure that they were molested, and its purpose is to convince them of that face and embolden them to act upon it. As for genuine victims, the comfort they are proffered may look attractive at first, but it is of debatable long value.