Whether this is true, of course, is a problem of literary criticism.
The trouble arises from the central problem of Bellow criticism, which is how to pull the life apart from the art.
Roland Barthes in his 1972 essay The Grain of the Voice touched on this basic problem of music criticism, remarking snidely that "the work (or its performance) is invariably translated into the poorest linguistic category: the adjective".
If criticism is in dialectical relationship with the art it studies, and analytic understanding is a kind of negation of the object understood, as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel thought, then the abiding problem of art criticism is to restore the art object to concreteness and particularity.
Once again a problem of source criticism raises its head.
In making this claim, Beardsley rejects Haig Khatchadourian's view (1978) that dance movements are not actions, crediting Van Camp's Philosophical Problems of Dance Criticism (1981) for helping him to critique Khatchadourian in this way.
Because of problems, including criticism of the planned control system by regulators in France, Britain and Finland, Areva executives will no longer make public predictions of when the Finnish plant will go online.
But while there are countless rather embarrassing holes with this headline-grabbing story, there is a larger problem with its line of criticism against the Iran nuclear deal that has passed largely unnoticed.
The leading aesthetics textbook of the period was subtitled Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism and opened with the assertion: "There would be no problems of aesthetics, in the sense in which I propose to mark out this field of study, if no one ever talked about works of art" (Beardsley 1958).
