TRP letter re Ian McEwan

[pynchonoid]

New York Times?

[...] Yet Donoghue clearly deeply admires Ruskin and
writes excellently about Ruskin's conception of the
imagination, ''a capacity responsive to the claims of
fact but unoppressed by them.'' This in turn seems to
be Donoghue's idea of the artwork, with its large but
not absolute autonomy -- something responsive to the
world but also a creator or transfigurer of it. [...] 

...from:

 Clearing a Space in the Mind
By JAMES WOOD
Published: September 14, 2003

SPEAKING OF BEAUTY
By Denis Donoghue.
209 pp. New Haven:
Yale University Press. $24.95. 
<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E6D61038F937A2575AC0A9659C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=all>


--- Mark Smith <masmith at nmc.edu> wrote:

> Any idea where that Ruskin quote comes from?

>http://pynchonoid.org
>>"everything connects"


 
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