Frederick Glaysher invokes a global vision beyond the prevailing
postmodern conceptions of life and literature that have become
firmly entrenched in contemporary world culture. East and West meet
in a new synthesis of a global vision of humankind ranging over
classic literature, ancient and modern, both Western and
non-Western, from the dilemmas of modernity in Yeats, Eliot,
Milosz, Bellow, Dostoevsky, to Lu Xun, Ryuichi Tamura, Kenzaburo
Oe, Naguib Mahfouz, R. K. Narayan, among others, from mimesis and
deconstruction to the United Nations, with extensive essays on
Chinese, Japanese, and South-Asian literature. Clearly the work of
a poet-critic attempting to embrace a larger portion of human
experience than the personal postmodern self, The Grove of the
Eumenides reaches toward an epic vision of the twenty-first
century. All the muck and glory of American and international
experience and history mix in the complex tension of a mind
struggling with itself and its Age. Acutely perceptive of the
spiritual and moral nuances of literature, criticism, and culture,
Glaysher confronts the loss of religious faith in the modern world
and breaks through to a vision of the unity of the human longing
for transcendence.
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Sat, 6 Dec 2008 | Review
by: Reform Bahai P.
In "The Grove of the Eumenides", Frederick Glaysher invokes a global vision of humankind beyond the prevailing conceptions of life and literature that have become firmly entrenched in contemporary world culture, ranging over classic literature, both Western and non-Western, from mimesis and deconstruction to the United Nations, with extensive essays on Chinese, Japanese, and South-Asian literature.
Clearly the work of a poet-critic attempting to embrace a larger portion of human experience than the personal postmodern self, The Grove of the Eumenides reaches toward an epic vision of the twenty-first century. All the muck and glory of American and international experience and history mix in the complex tension of a mind struggling with itself and its age. A Fulbright-Hays scholar to China in 1994, Glaysher studied at Beijing University, the Buddhist Mogao Caves on the Silk Road, and elsewhere in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. While a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar in 1995 on India, he further explored the conflicts between the traditional regional civilizations of Islamic and Hindu cultures and modernity. An outspoken advocate of the United Nations and accredited participant at the UN Millennium Forum (2000), he takes literary account of global realities.
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