Reading Texts, Reading Lives: Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz - Hardcover

by Daniel Morris (Editor), Helen Maxson (Editor), Paul Gordon (Contribution by)

Distinguished contributors take up eminent scholar Daniel R. Schwarz's reading of modern fiction and poetry as mediating between human desire and human action. The essayists follow Schwarz's advice, "always the text, always historicize," thus making this book relevant to current debates about the relationships between literature, ethics, aesthetics, and historical contexts.

Author Biography

Helen Maxson is professor of English at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.