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14 de mai. de 2024 · Benton—smug, pompous and self-righteous—is modelled on Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, fifteen miles north of Manhattan. Jarrell, just out of the army, taught there in 1946-47, when the college had 247 students and 66 faculty. Many of the fictional characters are also modeled on real people.
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Há 4 dias · Pictures . . . is less a novel than a series of poisonous portraits, set pieces, and endlessly quotable put-downs. Read it less for plot than sharp satire, Jarrell’s forte.”—Mary Welp “One of the wittiest books of modern times.”—New York Times “[T]he father of the modern campus novel, and the wittiest of them all.
23 de mai. de 2024 · From the sharp wit and satire of academic life in Pictures from an Institution, through the serene and philosophical reflections of Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition, to the complexities of human relationships in the poems of Blue in Green, let these books accompany you on your summer adventures, offering both enlightenment ...
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10 de mai. de 2024 · When in Randall Jarrell’s Pictures from an Institution, a college president is accused of being a hypocrite, the novel’s narrator retorts that the description is grossly unfair. After all, the man is still far from the stage of moral development at which the charge could possibly arise: to be a hypocrite one has to know right from wrong.
8 de mai. de 2024 · But change can come slower for a national institution: Consider, for instance, the London gallery’s acquisition of a single piece by George Bellows in 2014, the first major American painting to ...
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