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Carrithers, Gale Hemphill was born on April 24, 1932 in Chadron, Nebraska, United States. Son of Gale Hemphill and Hope (Roe) Carrithers.
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Though of diverse backgrounds and training, Mumford, Tate, and Eisley shared remarkably concordant and convincing views of the state of twentieth-century American society. All three considered America to be benighted by a dominant myth -- the "myth of the machine," in Mumford's phrase -- that resulted in cultural degeneration. Through an examination of selected works of each critic, Carrithers explains how these writers both identified and fought against this myth. Carrithers asserts that Mumford, Tate, and Eisley in their essays revived prophecy as a mode of expression and as a means of appraising culture in a broad historical context. Like the biblical prophets, the three concerned themselves not so much with the future as with the present. They sought to unmask the falseness, the moral emptiness, of a reductive, abstractive, mechanized model of the world. Carrithers considers Mumford as he moved from conflicted stances in the four volumes of The Renewal of Life to the more assured and comprehensive vision of society he portrayed in the two-volume The Myth of the Machine. He examines Tate's critique of American culture as it developed from his youthful involvement with the Fugitives and Agrarians to, in later years, an increasingly coherent but comber construal of the world's plight. Finally, he describes Eisley's fully emergent rejection of reductive scientism and temporalism -- a large part of "all that is crushing us," Eisley wrote -- evident in The Immense Journeyand other books. Mumford, Tate, and Eisley -- these "watchers in the night" -- all wrote against the grain of most of their contemporaries, posing questions about generally accepted current values and proffering alternatives that would make the world a more humane and transcendent place. Gale Carrithers' thoughtful, chalenging analysis of their efforts will be required reading for anyone who wishes a better understanding of our age.
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Hardcover in dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Publisher's statement: "In the most comprehensive reading of Milton in over a decade, Carrithers and Hardy proceed on three assumptions: that love, in all its various and contradictory forms, is of central importance in Milton's poetry; that much of Milton's poetry is a discourse in theology, primarily Augustinian and biblically based; and that theirs will be a hermeneutic analysis of a hermeneutic text. For Milton, love is the human metaphor--granted through grace--of eternity; its polar opposite is the selfishness of power. The poet believed profoundly in the reality of the Fall, which he conceived as the beginning of human time, of man's "wand'ring steps" toward redemption, and of human mischoice and misorientation in favor of power over love...According to Carrithers and Hardy, Milton viewed human understanding as "fallen"--that is, as always in midprocess, and thus hermeneutic. They contend that his works, early and late, contain a fundamental continuity and together reveal his own hermeneutic journey as surely as does him masterpiece, Paradise Lost."
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Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1972. 1st Edition, so stated, Hardbound, 8vo (about 8'' to 9.5'' tall), 319 pages. Index, notes.
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Carrithers, Gale Hemphill was born on April 24, 1932 in Chadron, Nebraska, United States. Son of Gale Hemphill and Hope (Roe) Carrithers.
Bachelor, College William and Mary, 1953. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1960.
Master of Architecture, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1974.
Instructor English, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1958-1962; from assistant professor to Professor of English, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1962-1971; Professor of English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, since 1980; department chairman English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1980-1983.
( Though of diverse backgrounds and training, Mumford, Ta...)
(Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 197...)
(Hardcover in dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. ...)
Lieutenant United States Army, 1953-1955, Korea. Member Modern Language Association, Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Friends of Loren Eiseley, Yale Club New York City, Mory's Society.
Married Joan Lambert, September 8, 1956. Children: Sandra, Mary.