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Jakob Lothe: An Appreciation
- Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 17, Number 2, June 2019
- pp. 201-208
- 10.1353/pan.2019.0014
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Abstract:
Writing in the genre of “Letter to an old friend,” James Phelan offers an appreciation of the deep interconnections between the character and the scholarship of Jakob Lothe, to whom this issue of the journal is dedicated. Phelan contrasts T. S. Eliot’s dictum about the desirable separation between the “man who suffers and the mind which creates” with his own experience of Lothe. Phelan finds that in Lothe the man who suffers is inseparable from the mind that interprets and theorizes and that this continuity between “man” and “mind” contributes to the superior quality of each.