Looking Backwards: Tradition, the Temporal, and the Timeless

Abstract

Abstract:

Our “Looking Backwards” selection continues to honor our promise in the 80th anniversary issue of The CEA Critic: to reprint past matters from the journal—articles, essays, notices, photos—and juxtapose them against the themes or topics pursued in the issue at hand. Typically, identifying the reprint involves starting with a present issue and then searching through the journal’s archives for something that sets up a conversation. Also, in reproducing our selection, we present it as closely as possible to the original.