Author: Eliza A. WoodPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Memorials of James Wood, Ll.D., J.P.
The Nearest Thing to Life
Author: James WoodPublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611687438
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood, noted contributor to the New Yorker, has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivion. The act of reading is understood here as the most sacred and personal of activities, and there are brilliant discussions of individual works - among others, Chekhov's story "The Kiss," W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants, and Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower. Wood reveals his own intimate relationship with the written word: we see the development of a provincial boy growing up in a charged Christian environment, the secret joy of his childhood reading, the links he makes between reading and blasphemy, or between literature and music. The final section discusses fiction in the context of exile and homelessness. The Nearest Thing to LifeÊis not simply a brief, tightly argued book by a man commonly regarded as our finest living critic - it is also an exhilarating personal account that reflects on, and embodies, the fruitful conspiracy between reader and writer (and critic), and asks us to reconsider everything that is at stake when we read and write fiction.
Memorials of Cambridge
Author: Charles Henry CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Memorial of the rev. Robert Wood
Author: Robert WoodThe Woods-McAfee Memorial, Containing an Account of John Woods and James McAfee of Ireland, and Their Descendants in America
Author: Neander Montgomery 1844- [From O WoodsPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342476152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
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Memorials of Cambridge
Author: Charles Henry CooperPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110804395X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
Cooper's new edition of Memorials of Cambridge, extensively updated from John Le Keux's 1841 work, was published in 1860.
Memorials of James Wood, LL. D., J.P., of Grove House, Southport ... With Chapter by the Rev. T. Cook
Author: Eliza A. WOODMemorials of James Wood ... of Grove House, Southport ...
Author: Eliza A. WoodMemorials of Cambridge. (With photographs printed by F. Frith.) A new edition (entirely re-written), by C. H. Cooper
Author: Thomas WrightHistorical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus County, N.Y.
Author: William AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattaraugus County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
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