Craig Werner
Auteur van A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
Over de Auteur
Craig Werner is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin
Werken van Craig Werner
Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul (1905) 41 exemplaren
For the Record 7: Up around the Bend: The Oral History Of Creedence Clearwater Revival (For the Record Series Number 7) (1999) 18 exemplaren
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- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Werner, Craig Hansen
- Geboortedatum
- 1952
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Opleiding
- Colorado College (BA, summa cum laude|1973)
University of Illinois (Ph.D|English|1979) - Beroepen
- professor
historian - Organisaties
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nominating Committee, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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- #99,815
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Werner's analysis of James Joyce's famous collection of short stories Dubliners is not one of the more accessible choices of the Twayne series -- at least for the general reader. I found it to be impenetrably dense and jargon-ridden, and frankly, got little out of having read it.
Here's a quote from page 98: Invoked by critics in the manner of the Hebrews addressing their refractory, uncooperative and nameless Lord, the Joycean "self" leaves traces of its finally unimaginable being throughout the text, which represents, in this allegory, the world created by the divine breath. But this "self" assumes meaning in relation to its very absence, its coexistence with a "real" "self" that, worst of all, is "somewhere else."
In the author's view, "What has been made of James Joyce is nearly as important as what Joyce made." In other words, Craig Werner believes that works of critics such as himself rank with James Joyce's literature in their importance. No; "I" don't "think" so.… (meer)