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Inventing Edward Lear by Sara Lodge

Inventing Edward Lear by Sara Lodge Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/120/867434/0270120.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 regard as Schapiro’s reluctance or inability to fully grasp, say, the thinking of Heidegger, that he misses everything about Schapiro that was street- smart and phlegmatic. Schapiro was avid for art and ideas, the more complex and challeng - ing the better. He loved the overarching theories of Marx and Freud and the intricate debates of his fellow intellectuals. But he saw through a lot of it, too. His greatness had everything to do with the saving simplicity — the ease and fluidity — that he brought to his interpretations of artistic and intellectual achievements and experiences. O’Donnell writes about Schapiro as if this formidable juggler and impresario of ideas was sometimes nearly strangled by ideas. Schapiro’s work has a plainspoken power that confounds O’Donnell’s intricate analysis. — Jed Perl doi 10.1215/0961754X-8723251 Sara Lodge, Inventing Edward Lear (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019), 436 pp. Lodge insists that her meticulously researched intellectual biography of the won - drous Edward Lear involves no biographical understanding of his work, but she cannot possibly mean it. Describing “four separate traumas” in Lear’s childhood is an important part of her attempt to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Inventing Edward Lear by Sara Lodge

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Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (1) – Jan 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/120/867434/0270120.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 regard as Schapiro’s reluctance or inability to fully grasp, say, the thinking of Heidegger, that he misses everything about Schapiro that was street- smart and phlegmatic. Schapiro was avid for art and ideas, the more complex and challeng - ing the better. He loved the overarching theories of Marx and Freud and the intricate debates of his fellow intellectuals. But he saw through a lot of it, too. His greatness had everything to do with the saving simplicity — the ease and fluidity — that he brought to his interpretations of artistic and intellectual achievements and experiences. O’Donnell writes about Schapiro as if this formidable juggler and impresario of ideas was sometimes nearly strangled by ideas. Schapiro’s work has a plainspoken power that confounds O’Donnell’s intricate analysis. — Jed Perl doi 10.1215/0961754X-8723251 Sara Lodge, Inventing Edward Lear (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019), 436 pp. Lodge insists that her meticulously researched intellectual biography of the won - drous Edward Lear involves no biographical understanding of his work, but she cannot possibly mean it. Describing “four separate traumas” in Lear’s childhood is an important part of her attempt to

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