“The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before which man’s flesh shrinks away. To define force – it is that X that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to...

Publicado em: 19/03/14

Utopia’s dangers and toils: some remarks on Hawthorne’s “The Blithedale Romance” (1852) Reproduzido do Awestruck Wanderer In 1841, Hawthorne moved to Brook Farm, an experimental socialist community in Massachussets. This Utopian rural commune, connected with the Transcendentalism movement, drew inspiration from the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Fourier,...

Publicado em: 05/01/14