Penulis: Marvin Mudrick

On Culture and Literature displays the style, brio, and independence of thought that makes Marvin Mudrick one of the few literary critics who is read for pleasure. This is cultural criticism at its m …

The Man in the Machine consists of lively, iconoclastic assessments of major writers and critics by Marvin Mudrick, about whom the critic Roger Sale wrote: "T. S. Eliot was not so good a reviewe …

Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery, Marvin Mudrick’s first book, was published in 1952, and remains a fundamental work of commentary on Austen. It is filled with idiosyncratic insights about …

Books Are Not Life, But Then What Is? demonstrates how much Marvin Mudrick loved life and celebrated the dignity of life in literature. "It’s helpful to be reminded now and then, " he write …

Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a virtuoso display of literary and historical portraiture by Marvin Mudrick, whom the Washington Post called a "literary curmudgeon, randy iconoclast, and a deligh …

Mudrick Transcribed: Classes and Talks exists only because of the diligence and ingenuity of a student, Lance Kaplan, who recorded some of Marvin Mudrick’s classes on cassette tapes. It is entertaini …