HAROLD FROMM
Harold Fromm lives in
RECENT:
Pinker
and Johnson on Human Nature, in
J.S. Bach
in the Twenty-First Century: The Chapel Becomes a Larder, in
(Also viewable as html
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FORTHCOMING:
The Nature of Being Human: From
Environmentalism to Consciousness.
Forthcoming in April, 2009, from
WRITINGS ON ECOLOGY, SCIENCE, EVOLUTION,
CONSCIOUSNESS:
Michael Pollan’s Ecology of Food, in Hudson Review, Autumn
2006: 517-24.
Science Wars and Beyond, in Philosophy and Literature, 2006,30: 580-589.
Review of Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think, eds. Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley, in Evolutionary Psychology 2006:4. [human nature.com/ep]
Daniel Dennett and the Brick Wall of Consciousness,
in
Review
of The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature
of Narrative, ed Gottschall &
Wilson. In Science,
Letter to PMLA on science and the humanities (“Forum,”
January 2006, vol. 121 #1, p.297)
Back to Bacteria: Richard Dawkins’ Fabulous Bestiary,
in
Review of John Searle’s MIND: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION in Georgia Review, Fall 2005
Muses, Spooks, Neurons and the Rhetoric of “Freedom,”
in New Literary History, Spring 2005
(36: 147-59).
Evolution, Ecology, and the Western Diet—with
a Glance at Jared Diamond, Michael Pollan, and Gary Nabhan (delivered in June 2005 at the conference of the
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment [ASLE], held at
the University of Oregon).
Full-Stomach Wilderness and the Suburban Esthetic,
in Holding Common Ground: The Individual
and
Overcoming the Oversoul:
Emerson’s Evolutionary Existentialism, in Hudson
Review, Spring 2004: 71-95.
Ecocriticism’s
Big Bang in Logos,
Summer 2004 [www.logosjournal.com/fromm.htm]
The New Darwinism in the Humanities:
Part One: From Plato to Pinker, in Hudson Review, Spring 2003 (pdf)
Part
Two: Back to Nature, Again, in Hudson
Review, Summer 2003 (pdf)
(Both
parts as one html)
Ecology and Ecstasy on
Interstate 80 (on ecology,
technology, and the arts) in Hudson Review, Spring 1998: 65-78.
My Science Wars in
A Crucifix for Dracula as html
A Crucifix for
Dracula as pdf
This review from Hudson Review, Winter 2001, vol..
53 #4 [657-64], deals with the trashing of Edward O. Wilson's Consilience by Wendell Berry in his book, Life is
a Miracle. Berry's reply and my reply to him subsequently appeared in the
Summer 2001 of Hudson Review.
Berry/Fromm replies: This is the exchange that followed
publication of "A Crucifix for Dracula."
Aldo Leopold, Aesthetic ‘Anthropocentrist’
This essay appeared in the first issue of ISLE(Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment) in 1993
and was anthologized in 2003 in The ISLE
Reader from
Postmodern
Ecologizing: Circumference Without a Center
[Hudson Review 48
(Winter 1996):691-99] pdf This account of
A trilogy on air pollution
and ecology:
On Being Polluted [Yale Review 65 (Summer 1976): 614-29] pdf
From Transcendence to Obsolescence: A
Route Map [Georgia
Review 32 (Fall 1978): 543-552] pdf
Air and Being: The Psychedelics
of Pollution [Massachusetts
Review 24 (Autumn 1983): 660-68] pdf
LITERARY AND CRITICAL ESSAYS:
Coetzee’s
Postmodern Animals [Hudson Review 53
(Summer 2000): 657-64] pdf
Myths
and Mishegaas: Robert Graves and Laura
Riding [
Sylvia
Plath: Hunger Artist [
Ford Madox Ford Unmuddled?
[Hudson Review 44 (Winter 1992): 649-58] pdf
Wrestling
With Heidegger [Hudson
Review 51 (Winter 1999): 681-90] pdf
Andrew
Ross and the Curse of Postmodernism [Hudson
Review 49 (Summer
1996): 323-30] pdf
Holroyd/Strachey/Shaw: Art and Archives
in Literary Biography [Hudson Review 52 (Summer 1989): 201-21] pdf
Toscanini, Then and Now [Hudson
Review 55 (Winter 2003): 662-70] pdf
Genius or Fudge?
The Clouded Alembics of Magister Poe [Hudson
Review 45 (Summer 1992): 301-9] pdf
O,
Paglia Mia! [Hudson
Review 48 (Summer 1995): 308-16] pdf
Establishing
A Way in a World of Conflicts, in Teaching the Conflicts: Gerald Graff,
Curricular Reform, and the Culture Wars, edited by William E. Cain. [Garland Publishing, NY & London,
1994, 67-77] pdf
Leonard and Virginia Woolf:
Virginia
Woolf: Art and Sexuality [Virginia Quarterly Review 55 (Summer 1979): 441-59] pdf
Recycled Lives:
Portraits of the Woolfs as Sitting Ducks [Virginia
Quarterly Review
61:3 (Summer 1985): 396-417] pdf
Leonard Woolf and His
Virgins [Hudson Review 38 (Winter 1986): 551-69] pdf
Service Not Power: Leonard Woolf’s Letters [Hudson
Review 43
(Spring 1990): 170-75] pdf
Between the Acts: The Demiurge Made Flesh [Southern
Humanities Review
15 (Summer 1981): 209-17] pdf
To The Lighthouse: Music and
Sympathy [English Miscellany 19 (1968): 181-95] pdf
EDITING AND CUSTODIANSHIP: LOOKING OUT FOR
DOROTHY M. RICHARDSON
Harold Fromm has a Ph.D. from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught in English departments at
Wisconsin-Madison, Oakland University, Wayne State, Brooklyn College, Indiana
University Northwest, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. For a
BIBLIOGRAPHY, click here. A number of the items in the
bibliography have been collected in Fromm: Academic
Capitalism and Literary Value, U. of Georgia Press, 1991.