Choice 评论
These sensible, readable, provocative, enlightening, challenging essays balance the specialized and consciously subjective criticism commonplace in contemporary journals. Though as a literary critic the late Tuttleton might be described as conservative or traditional, he was far from closed-minded on contemporary concerns and problems, both literary and non. The essays chronologically run from Frederick Douglass to Ralph Ellison, covering an equal number of white (Higginson, Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Twain) and African American (Douglass, Cullen, Wright, Walcott, Ellison) writers and addressing many issues of race, culture, civil rights, and political correctness. At a point when much critical weight seems to be pulling students and scholars into a dizzying infatuation with things postmodern, Tuttleton reminds readers of traditional literary moorings and offers ways of reading that allow them to understand how those tools and moorings are still vital for reading even modern giants like Derek Walcott with intelligence. Highly recommended for all academic collections. J. A. Zoller Houghton College