William M Chace
Biographic Data
| ID | 331005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William M Chace |
| GIVEN NAMES | William M |
| FAMILY NAME | Chace |
| SIGNATURE | CHACE W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
James Joyce's Ulysses will forever be the book that few have read and almost everyone recognizes as great. No masterpiece of modern literature has enjoyed so much attention; yet nowhere has the gap between fame and understanding been so deep. In that gap has stood, for years, a faithful guide — Richard Ellmann's massive literary biography James Joyce. First published to immense acclaim in 1959 and revised with more information in 1982, it remains…
The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California
This impressive book reveals the ferocity with which a present generation can bring charges against those of a past generation alleged to have committed errors. Alfred Kroeber, one of the most eminent and productive anthropologists of the twentieth century, had a building on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley named after him in 1961, just one year after his death, at age eighty-four. Sixty years later, the building was diveste…
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
In this short and contentious book, Brooks exalts what he calls “narrative takeover,” the ways in which, owing to the power of the modern novel, we have been given one and only one means of understanding the world and ourselves: narration. A large claim, it is asserted with considerable force: Narrative seems to have become accepted as the only form of knowledge and speech that regulates human affairs.He also states that the “plethoric” spread of…
Literary Criticism: Reflections from a Damaged Field
From mid-2020 until early 2023, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a series of essays that, when summed up, represents a valediction for English and American literary studies as practiced during the last half century. Some of the Chronicle authors, enjoying the privilege of tenure, speak for the profession as it was in healthier times. Others, representing a younger generation of scholars, hold on to unstable teaching positions. All are …
The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes
It weighs in at a bit more than five pounds; its dimensions demand a cradle. Yet this book is a handsome and welcome achievement despite its bulk. Its reproduction of the 1922 text, its maps and photos of 1904 Dublin; its list of minor characters in Ulysses; its bibliography of scholarship, both old and new; its timeline of Joyce's life, and its exemplary detailed annotations of the text: everything, harvested from the best sources, has been brou…
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Menand writes essays. This book is a compilation of detailed essays on certain individuals and certain intellectual movements before and during the Cold War. Menand has the gift, a remarkable one, of being able to explain—to explain almost anything. He deftly opens up the complex inner workings of Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism; the assumptions and mode of analysis embodied by structuralism; the troubled reasoning behind Isaiah Be…
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
In seventeen secular sermons, composed in a style at once grave, elegant, and concise, Ignatieff offers us his digest of the wisdom—the wisdom of consolation—that he has sought to find in writings as old as the book of Job and as recent as some of the letters of Václav Havel. Concluding the book, Ignatieff says of the authors he has surveyed that the “consolation they offer, it seems to me, lies in their example, in their courage and lucidity, an…
On Seamus Heaney
The year 1939 saw the death of William Butler Yeats and the birth of Seamus Heaney. In 1923 Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature; in 1995 the same honor was bestowed on Heaney. The two poets, one a Protestant whose writing was rooted in a primarily Catholic nation and the other a Roman Catholic whose roots lay in a part of Ireland dominated by Protestants, together defined the world of Irish poetry for most of the twentieth century. They…
Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling, ed. Adam Kirsch
Review Article| January 01 2020 Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling, ed. Adam Kirsch Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling, ed. Kirsch, Adam (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2018), 448 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 149–151. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7899760 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissi…
Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic by Marina MacKay
Book Review| April 01 2020 Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic by Marina MacKay MacKay, Marina, Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic (London: Oxford University Press, 2018), 228 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 355–356. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8192774 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sea…
Modernism and the Law by Robert Spoo
Book Review| April 01 2020 Modernism and the Law by Robert Spoo Spoo, Robert, Modernism and the Law (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), 196 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 358–359. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8196852 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William M. Chace; Modernism and …
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard by Cynthia L. Haven
Review Article| January 01 2020 Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard by Cynthia L. Haven Haven, Cynthia L., Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018), 317 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 169–171. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7900048 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Sea…
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan
Book Review| August 01 2018 The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan Caplan, Bryan, The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018), 395 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 430–431. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-6…
Posthumous Cantos by Ezra Pound
Book Review| January 01 2018 Posthumous Cantos by Ezra Pound Pound, Ezra, Posthumous Cantos, ed. Bacigalupo, Massimo (Manchester, UK: Carcanet, 2015), 220 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (1): 165–166. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-4254060 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William M. Chace; …
The Letters of T. S. Eliot , Volume 5, 1930 – 31 Young Eliot: From St. Louis to “The Waste Land”
The Little Review “Ulysses,”
Book Review| May 01 2016 The Little Review “Ulysses,” Joyce, James, The Little Review “Ulysses,”. ed. Gaipa, Mark, Latham, Sean, and Scholes, Robert. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015), 455 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 314–315. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3487908 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permis…
Joyce's Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism, and Memory
Book Review| September 01 2016 Joyce's Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism, and Memory Gibbons, Luke, Joyce's Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism, and Memory. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 286 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 516. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3634262 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years, 1921 - 1939
Book Review| September 01 2015 Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years, 1921 – 1939 Moody, David, Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years, 1921 – 1939. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 421 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 517–519. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3131219 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo P…
The Most Dangerous Book: "The Battle for James Joyce's "Ulysses
Book Review| April 01 2015 The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's “Ulysses” Birmingham, Kevin, The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's “Ulysses”. (New York: Penguin, 2014), 417 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 336–337. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2872642 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo …
The Letters of T. S. Eliot
Research Article| April 01 2019 The Letters of T. S. Eliot The Letters of T. S. Eliot, ed. Eliot, Valerie; Haffenden, John, vol. 3 (1926 – 27), 954 pp., and vol. 4 (1928 – 29), 826 pp. (London: Faber and Faber, 2012). William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 431–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312393 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
Book Review| August 01 2014 Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain Spoo, Robert, Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 355 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 503–504. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2732976 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn M…
Why Trilling Matters
Ulysses in Focus: Genetic, Textual, and Personal Views
Book Review| August 01 2013 Ulysses in Focus: Genetic, Textual, and Personal Views Groden, Michael, Ulysses in Focus: Genetic, Textual, and Personal Views (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010), 245 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 562–563. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281918 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
A Tale of Two Provosts
This guest column, written by a former president of Emory University, examines arguments made by Jonathan Cole, a former provost of Columbia, in his book The Great American University. Cole illustrates his history of the modern American research university with a vivid comparison between two eminent academic leaders of the last century, Jacques Barzun of Columbia and Frederick Terman of Stanford. Employing data generated by the Shanghai Jiao Tong…
Saul Bellow: Letters
Introduction: Regarding Change at Ise Jingū
Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Book Review| August 01 2011 Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities Nussbaum, Martha C., Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 158 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 543. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305490 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supple…
Ezra Pound and the Marxist Temptation
the Bollingen Award for poetry to Ezra Pound, has there been much interest in the political ideas of this powerful, odd, original and estranged man. The ravages of time have proceeded, in the last twenty years, to make their mark deep on him. Academic publishing has sectioned off bits and pieces of his poetry to be subjected to formal explication; his Cantos have been chipped down to suitable teaching size. Popular literary history is by now cond…
The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics
Ezra Pound: Insanity,' 'Treason,' and Care
The discussion about proposals to change the Western Culture program at Stanford University
The Public Representation of the American College Campus
The most important change happening to the academy is that the "hallowed" or "sacrosanct" idea of the campus is eroding. Professors and what they have stood for have been "desanctifed." The next 10 years will see the fuller emergence of manifest class differences. The gap between winners and losers will be impossible to hide on the campus, and it will be increasingly impossible to immunize the campus from its surroundings
An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938
Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form
Book Review| August 01 2006 Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form Paul Armstrong, Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005), 207 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (3): 521–522. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2006-016 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter …
Introduction: Regarding Change at Ise Jingū
On the Margin
Research Article| April 01 2008 On the Margin: Irving Howe Reconsidered William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (2): 270–277. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-073 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William M. Chace; On the Margin: Irving Howe Reconsidered. Common Knowledge 1 April 2008; 14 (2): 270–27…
Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909-1939
Book Review| August 01 2008 Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909-1939 Mark Antliff, Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909-1939 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 352 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 499. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2008-025 Cite Icon Cite …
Eimi: A Journey Through Soviet Russia
Book Review| August 01 2009 Eimi: A Journey Through Soviet Russia e. e. cummings, EIMI: A Journey through Soviet Russia, ed. George J. Firmage (New York: Liveright, 2007), 384 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 514. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-042 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Shar…
James Jesus Angleton, the Cia, and the Craft of Counterintelligence
Book Review| April 01 2010 James Jesus Angleton, the Cia, and the Craft of Counterintelligence Michael Holzman, James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008), 399 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 288. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2009-095 Views Icon Views Article contents Figu…
How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment
Book Review| August 01 2010 How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment Michèle Lamont, How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 330 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 555. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2010-014 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures…
Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Book Review| August 01 2011 Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities Nussbaum, Martha C., Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 158 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 543. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305490 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supple…
Unacknowledged Legislator
Some writers are drawn, almost as if hexed, to pronounce on matters of state, politics, and, occasionally, economic policy. Margaret Atwood is one such writer. Her book Payback suffers from its aspiration to create an idealistic and implausible world to take the place of the one we have. This imaginary world would adopt all currently attractive ecological and friendly principles. In positing such a utopia, Atwood puts aside the admirable acuity s…
Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece
Book Review| January 01 2011 Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece Declan Kiberd, Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece (New York: W. W. Norton, 2009), 416 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 192–194. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2010-055 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
Saul Bellow: Letters
Why Trilling Matters
Ulysses in Focus: Genetic, Textual, and Personal Views
Book Review| August 01 2013 Ulysses in Focus: Genetic, Textual, and Personal Views Groden, Michael, Ulysses in Focus: Genetic, Textual, and Personal Views (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010), 245 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 562–563. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281918 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
A Tale of Two Provosts
This guest column, written by a former president of Emory University, examines arguments made by Jonathan Cole, a former provost of Columbia, in his book The Great American University. Cole illustrates his history of the modern American research university with a vivid comparison between two eminent academic leaders of the last century, Jacques Barzun of Columbia and Frederick Terman of Stanford. Employing data generated by the Shanghai Jiao Tong…
The Letters of T. S. Eliot
Research Article| April 01 2019 The Letters of T. S. Eliot The Letters of T. S. Eliot, ed. Eliot, Valerie; Haffenden, John, vol. 3 (1926 – 27), 954 pp., and vol. 4 (1928 – 29), 826 pp. (London: Faber and Faber, 2012). William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 431–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312393 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
Book Review| August 01 2014 Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain Spoo, Robert, Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 355 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 503–504. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2732976 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn M…
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years, 1921 - 1939
Book Review| September 01 2015 Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years, 1921 – 1939 Moody, David, Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years, 1921 – 1939. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 421 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 517–519. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3131219 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo P…
The Most Dangerous Book: "The Battle for James Joyce's "Ulysses
Book Review| April 01 2015 The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's “Ulysses” Birmingham, Kevin, The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's “Ulysses”. (New York: Penguin, 2014), 417 pp. William M. Chace William M. Chace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 336–337. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2872642 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo …
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