The Genre of Sage-Writing (or Secular Prophecy) (original) (raw)

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General

• Introduction
• Ruskin as Victorian Sage: The Example of "Traffic"
• Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1986. Complete text

The Sage's Techniques

• Invented Grotesques
• Reading the Fire Writing on the Wall
• Victorian Sages and the Homiletic Tradition
• Discovered Grotesques (1): The Amphibious Pope
• Discovered Grotesques (2): The Seven-Foot Hat
• The Meaning of the World in the Meaning of a Word: Definitions from Carlyle to Suleri

Sages and their Descendents and Parodists

• Matthew Arnold
• Max Beerbohm
• Thomas Carlyle
• Joan Didion
• John Ruskin
• H. D. Thoreau
• Oscar Wilde

Last modified 11 March 2007