Tag: Literature

Books

English Bards and APSR Reviewers

– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 1960).
Excerpt: Recently the Review has extended its hospitality to studies which are not, technically, within the discipline it serves. A new school of Shakespeare criticism may be in the making;… More

Political Philosophy and Poetry

– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).
Excerpt: Sigurd Burckhardt has rendered a service in providing the occasion for a thematic presentation of the principles underlying the interpretations of Shakespearean drama by Jaffa and… More

A Restatement

– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).

Tom Sawyer: Hero of Middle America

Interpretation, Spring 1972. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).
Excerpt: Tom Sawyer, master of the noble lie, is the master figure of American literature, the character in whom, more than in any other, Americans fancy themselves to be reflected and… More

Harry V. Jaffa on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.
Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”

Harry V. Jaffa on Shakespeare’s Macbeth

– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.
Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”

Shakespeare’s Politics

– Ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Alan Bloom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Summary from the Publisher: Taking the classical view that the political shapes man’s consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist.… More

Macbeth and the Moral Universe

– Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College in 1974. Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2007/08.
Excerpt: Macbeth is a moral play par excellence. In this, it stands in stark contrast to two more recent well-known tales of murder, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and… More

Thoreau and Lincoln

– From A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau, ed. Jack Turner (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).

Essays

English Bards and APSR Reviewers

– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 1960).
Excerpt: Recently the Review has extended its hospitality to studies which are not, technically, within the discipline it serves. A new school of Shakespeare criticism may be in the making;… More

Political Philosophy and Poetry

– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).
Excerpt: Sigurd Burckhardt has rendered a service in providing the occasion for a thematic presentation of the principles underlying the interpretations of Shakespearean drama by Jaffa and… More

A Restatement

– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).

Tom Sawyer: Hero of Middle America

Interpretation, Spring 1972. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).
Excerpt: Tom Sawyer, master of the noble lie, is the master figure of American literature, the character in whom, more than in any other, Americans fancy themselves to be reflected and… More

Harry V. Jaffa on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.
Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”

Harry V. Jaffa on Shakespeare’s Macbeth

– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.
Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”

Shakespeare’s Politics

– Ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Alan Bloom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Summary from the Publisher: Taking the classical view that the political shapes man’s consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist.… More

Macbeth and the Moral Universe

– Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College in 1974. Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2007/08.
Excerpt: Macbeth is a moral play par excellence. In this, it stands in stark contrast to two more recent well-known tales of murder, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and… More

Thoreau and Lincoln

– From A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau, ed. Jack Turner (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).

Commentary

English Bards and APSR Reviewers

– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 1960).
Excerpt: Recently the Review has extended its hospitality to studies which are not, technically, within the discipline it serves. A new school of Shakespeare criticism may be in the making;… More

Political Philosophy and Poetry

– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).
Excerpt: Sigurd Burckhardt has rendered a service in providing the occasion for a thematic presentation of the principles underlying the interpretations of Shakespearean drama by Jaffa and… More

A Restatement

– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).

Tom Sawyer: Hero of Middle America

Interpretation, Spring 1972. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).
Excerpt: Tom Sawyer, master of the noble lie, is the master figure of American literature, the character in whom, more than in any other, Americans fancy themselves to be reflected and… More

Harry V. Jaffa on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.
Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”

Harry V. Jaffa on Shakespeare’s Macbeth

– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.
Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”

Shakespeare’s Politics

– Ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Alan Bloom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Summary from the Publisher: Taking the classical view that the political shapes man’s consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist.… More

Macbeth and the Moral Universe

– Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College in 1974. Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2007/08.
Excerpt: Macbeth is a moral play par excellence. In this, it stands in stark contrast to two more recent well-known tales of murder, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and… More

Thoreau and Lincoln

– From A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau, ed. Jack Turner (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).

Multimedia

English Bards and APSR Reviewers

– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 1960).
Excerpt: Recently the Review has extended its hospitality to studies which are not, technically, within the discipline it serves. A new school of Shakespeare criticism may be in the making;… More

Political Philosophy and Poetry

– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).
Excerpt: Sigurd Burckhardt has rendered a service in providing the occasion for a thematic presentation of the principles underlying the interpretations of Shakespearean drama by Jaffa and… More

A Restatement

– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).

Tom Sawyer: Hero of Middle America

Interpretation, Spring 1972. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).
Excerpt: Tom Sawyer, master of the noble lie, is the master figure of American literature, the character in whom, more than in any other, Americans fancy themselves to be reflected and… More

Harry V. Jaffa on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.
Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”

Harry V. Jaffa on Shakespeare’s Macbeth

– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.
Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”

Shakespeare’s Politics

– Ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Alan Bloom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Summary from the Publisher: Taking the classical view that the political shapes man’s consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist.… More

Macbeth and the Moral Universe

– Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College in 1974. Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2007/08.
Excerpt: Macbeth is a moral play par excellence. In this, it stands in stark contrast to two more recent well-known tales of murder, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and… More

Thoreau and Lincoln

– From A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau, ed. Jack Turner (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).

Teaching

English Bards and APSR Reviewers

– Sigurd Burckhardt, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 1960).
Excerpt: Recently the Review has extended its hospitality to studies which are not, technically, within the discipline it serves. A new school of Shakespeare criticism may be in the making;… More

Political Philosophy and Poetry

– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).
Excerpt: Sigurd Burckhardt has rendered a service in providing the occasion for a thematic presentation of the principles underlying the interpretations of Shakespearean drama by Jaffa and… More

A Restatement

– Allan Bloom, The American Political Science Review Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1960).

Tom Sawyer: Hero of Middle America

Interpretation, Spring 1972. Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).
Excerpt: Tom Sawyer, master of the noble lie, is the master figure of American literature, the character in whom, more than in any other, Americans fancy themselves to be reflected and… More

Harry V. Jaffa on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.
Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”

Harry V. Jaffa on Shakespeare’s Macbeth

– Audio lecture, Hillsdale College, April 1974.
Summary: Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) delivered this speech in April 1974 at Hillsdale College’s CCA seminar on “Crime and Punishment: The American Judicial System.”

Shakespeare’s Politics

– Ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Alan Bloom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Summary from the Publisher: Taking the classical view that the political shapes man’s consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist.… More

Macbeth and the Moral Universe

– Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College in 1974. Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2007/08.
Excerpt: Macbeth is a moral play par excellence. In this, it stands in stark contrast to two more recent well-known tales of murder, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and… More

Thoreau and Lincoln

– From A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau, ed. Jack Turner (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010). Reprinted in The Conditions of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).