Literature Versus Utopia: An Ancient Quarrel
Why do we prefer heroic suffering to utopian contentment?
John Farrell is professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College and the author, most recently, of The Varieties of Authorial Intention: Literary Theory Beyond the Intentional Fallacy.
Why do we prefer heroic suffering to utopian contentment?
The intentions of authors still matter, no matter what the critics say.
In defense of allegory.
On three English translations of 'The Iliad'