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I. On Metaphor by Alan Wall.
‘Metaphor works through a pendulum motion of the mind; it functions, as we said, through projective and interactive imagery. We join this to that and thereby form a single image.’ Published with Roden Noel’s essay on metaphor and mendacity in poetry from our archive.
II. Marianne Faithfull by Anthony Howell.
‘The song was being played over the radio, and we heard it as it wafted through some open window, and realised that a friend was achieving her apotheosis. As schoolboy intellectuals, we didn’t approve of ‘As Tears Go By’…The song was vapid, and she had spunk!’ Published with a Fortnightly Review of ‘Innocence and Experience‘, the Tate Liverpool exhibition curated by Marianne Faithfull.
[The Serial] The Invention of the Modern World by Alan Macfarlane.
The Fortnightly Review‘s Spring-Summer 2012 Serial is a rejection of the conventional, Marx-Weber view of the ‘modern’ by the noted Cambridge historian and anthropologist. Prof. Macfarlane’s manuscript ‘synthesizes a lifetime of reflection on the origins of the modern world.’ In 18 parts.
Current instalment: 15 May to 1 June – Chapter 4: The Origins of Capitalism.
III. Poetry Prize Culture and the Aberdeen Angus by Peter Riley.
‘The judging criteria, being tied to a system of familiarity and recurrence, are inevitably subjective and inevitably self-propagating. What chance is there of objectivity in an art where there is no common agreement as to what constitutes its qualities?’
IV. Creative Writing in the Universities by Michelene Wandor.
‘Writer-teachers are not being paid to write, but rather to teach. Their imaginative output (poetry, drama, prose) is now called “research” within the academy, while still being deemed “literature” outside it.
V. Joseph de Maistre and Progress by Anthony O’Hear.
‘There is one respect in which Maistre might himself be too much a figure of his own age: he is as much a believer in progress as his Enlightenment opponents. It is just a different sort of progress.’
VI. A Pomenvylope by Nicholas Moore by Martin Sorrell.
A communication from a poet once famous. Published with A Voice from the Nile by ‘Bysshe Vanolis’, the Nicholas Moore of his time, but rediscovered in the Fortnightly‘s archive.
VII. Postmodernism by Anthony Howell.
Published with Postmodernism at the V&A, a brief editorial preface, and an informal exhibition memoir by Keith Johnson, Memphis Comes to Kensington, to which has been added: Notes on the Complexities of Post-Modernism by Charles Jencks.
VIII. Charles Dickens in the Editor’s Chair by Percy Fitzgerald.
Editorial advice to would-be story-tellers. Published here to coincide with the republication of Forster’s Life of Charles Dickens in three volumes by Cambridge University Press. The bicentennial of Dickens’ birth is 2012.
IX. Genealogy in America by Drew Moore.
A writer finds he is almost, but not quite, related to Chaucer. Also in The Fortnightly Review: On Ancestor Worship by Herbert Spencer.
X. Truthtelling by Roger Berkowitz.
‘Democracy in an Age Without Facts’. The inaugural lecture, published here simultaneously with the fourth annual conference of the Hannah Arendt Center.
XI. Death to the Reading Class by Marshall Poe.
Also in The Fortnightly Review: The Production and Life of Books by C. Kegan Paul.
XII. Vorticists in London by Andrew Thacker.
Also in The Fortnightly Review: Vorticism by Ezra Pound.
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