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On Literary Criticism and Political Action  

Jim Swan ▪ November – December 1967

It was a pleasure to read Lawrence W. Hyman’s statement: “It is not a moral direction that we must look for in literature but a disturbance.” Hyman provides an exciting way for handling moralistic objections—from Left and Right—that art is …



On Literary Criticism and Political Action  

Jim Swan ▪ November – December 1967

It was a pleasure to read Lawrence W. Hyman’s statement: “It is not a moral direction that we must look for in literature but a disturbance” (“Literature and Political Action,” DISSENT, July—August 1967). Hyman provides an exciting way for handling …



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