HAROLD FROMM
Harold
Fromm lives in
NEW:
Against Representation: Ralph Vaughan Williams and
the Erotics of Art, in
Vegans
and the Quest for Purity, Chronicle
of Higher Education,
Free as We Need to Be, in Politics and Culture, 2010 Issue 1
(April 29th)
Michael Phelps, Domenico Scarlatti, and Scott Ross, in
Two Brains Better Than One: review of Human: The
Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, by Michael Gazzaniga, in The
Evolutionary Review, vol. 1 [2010]: 59-61.
The Nature of Being Human: From
Environmentalism to Consciousness
Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2009. REVIEWS
RECENT:
Collecting Science: review of Alan Sokal’s Beyond
the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture, with brief notice of The
Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, edited by Richard Dawkins and American
Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, edited by Bill McKibben, in Hudson
Review, Autumn 2008 (61:3): 573-9
Arguing for Embodied Consciousness:
review of Edward Slingerland’s What Science Offers the Humanities, in Science,
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 )
Review of this essay in the Wilson Quarterly, Spring
2008
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
Reading with Selection in Mind:
review of The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative, ed
Gottschall & Wilson. In Science, Feb. 3, 2006 (311: 612-13)
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
The
Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology, The
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
ACADEMIC
FEUDS (from a fading past):
Harold Fromm, Henry
Louis Gates, Mary Louise Pratt, Michael Awkward:
From Race,
Writing, and Difference, ed. Henry Louis Gates, U. of Chicago Press, 1986.
The items in the book originally appeared in Critical Inquiry, Autumn
1985 and 1986. The texts below have been taken from the Autumn 1986
issue.
Harold Fromm: “The Hegemonic Form of Othering; or The
Academic’s Burden.”
Mary
Louise Pratt: “A Reply to Harold Fromm.”
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: “Talkin’ That Talk.”
From
New Literary History, Autumn
1988 (20: 49-64).
Harold Fromm: "Real Life, Literary
Criticism, and the Perils of Bourgeoisification."
Harold
Fromm: a reply to Michael
Awkward’s criticisms of the above in American Literary History.
MUSIC:
Against Representation: Ralph Vaughan Williams and
the Erotics of Art, in
Michael Phelps, Domenico Scarlatti, and Scott Ross, in
J.S. Bach in the Twenty-First Century: The Chapel Becomes
a Larder, in
(Also viewable as html
) Review of this essay in the Wilson Quarterly,
Spring 2008
Toscanini, Then and Now ,
in
BOOKS:
The Nature of Being Human: From
Environmentalism to Consciousness: 2009, Johns
The
Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology: 1996,
Academic
Capitalism and Literary Value: 1991,
Bernard
Shaw and the Theater in the Nineties: 1967, University of Kansas
Press
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
“Scholarship, Politics, and
the MLA” (review of Introduction to Scholarship in Modern
Languages and Literatures by Joseph Gibaldi) Hudson Review 46
(Spring 1993): 157-68.
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
For
a complete 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.
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. He now has a research appointment at the University of Arizona in
association with the Department of English.