Job title:
Professor, English
Bio:
Quotations"If you are serious about revision, and serious about listening to people who can give you a really hardnosed, rational critique of your work, your eventual prose is going to turn out to be better than yourself. It's going to be more logical than you are."
"It's going to be more eloquent than you are. It's going to impress people in a way that you don't impress people. And then you get the thrill of being known for something that is an artifact of a process, rather than for your own beautiful inner nature–-and, at my age, I'll take it."
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Publications & Presentations:
- The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James (1957)
- The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook (1963)
- The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes (1966, 1989)
- The Patch Commission (1968)
- The Random House Handbook (1974, sixth ed., 1992)
- Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method (1975)
- Skeptical Engagements (1986)
- The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy (1992),
- The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute (1995)
- Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend (1998)