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Category Archives: Literature
Jews & The Guardianship Question In Canada, Latin America, Africa
Custodianship Question in America Australia, New Zealand Europe Alliance Theory Asia Canada’s relationship between literary culture, academic institutions, and Jewish intellectual participation was shaped by configurations that differ from the American case even though the two countries share a language, … Continue reading
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Jews & The Guardianship Question In Australia & New Zealand
Custodianship Question in America Australia, New Zealand Europe Alliance Theory & The Custodianship Question Alliance Theory Asia Canada, Latin America, Africa Australia and New Zealand are settler societies organized around British cultural inheritance, which means that the literary and academic … Continue reading
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The Fictions We Live By
“Social life depends on these kinds of shared fictions. When an agreed-upon story appears, people often accept it even when they have doubts.” (Rob K. Henderson) American social life runs on stories that are treated as real enough to organize … Continue reading
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Wuthering Heights As An Alliance Failure
ChatGPT says: Wuthering Heights is a study in how alliances form under scarcity and humiliation, then harden into lifelong vendettas. Read through David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory, the novel is not a romance gone wrong. It is a brutal map of … Continue reading
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Decoding War and Peace
Gemini says: Leo Tolstoy creates a massive simulation of the human coordination game in War and Peace. While the characters believe they act out of patriotism, love, or personal ambition, David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory reveals them as particles moving within … Continue reading
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Decoding Middlemarch
Gemini says: George Eliot’s Middlemarch serves as a clinical study of what David Pinsof calls the “coordination game” of social life. While the novel is often read as a story of individual moral growth, Alliance Theory reveals it as a … Continue reading
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Status Closure and The Lost Generation
Donald Trump Batters The Credential Society On Christmas Eve—or Nittel Nacht, as we call it in the tribe—I was doing my level best to avoid studying Torah. To distract myself, I opened the Perlego app (the Netflix of textbooks!) and … Continue reading
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The Vanishing White Male Writer
Jacob Savage writes in Compact magazine: It’s easy enough to trace the decline of young white men in American letters—just browse The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list. In 2012 the Times included seven white American men under the age … Continue reading
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How Bodies Read and Write: Dostoevsky’s Demons and Coetzee’s Master of Petersburg
Michael Kochin wrote a chapter in the 2013 book, Dostoevsky’s Political Thought: The writer must give up his soul in order to write. He must give up his soul to become the body writing. To write Stavrogin, then, the writer … Continue reading
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The Secret Life of John le Carre
Adam Sisman writes in this 2023 book: * David claimed that these extramarital relationships were ‘impulsive, driven, short – lived affairs . . . often meaningless in themselves’, but while that might be true of some of them, others appear … Continue reading
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