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The long conversation: Lewis Simpson and the archaeology of mind.(THE LIFE AND WORK OF Lewis P. Simpson)

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From: The Southern Review
Date: 20060322
Author:Regalis, Martha

... Yet shall I live.

--OVID, Metamorphoses

WHEN I FINISHED MY DISSERTATION on Henry Adams, language, and the problem of subjectivity in modernist versions of historiography and identity, I recorded a singular and humbling discovery. I wrote that all that I had done--from my efforts to untangle William of Ockham's argument for a subjective understanding of meaning in language to my treatment of Althusser's theory of the interpellated self--was but a footnote to Lewis Simpson's monumental intellectual achievement in history, literature, and American Studies. Ten years ...

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