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Author: Arthur Krystal Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300145608 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 208
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This book examines the role of temperament and taste in the forming of aesthetic and ideological opinions. In provocative chapters about reading and writing, about the relation between life and literature, about knowledge and certainty, about God and death, and about a gradual disaffection with the literary scene, the book demonstrates that opposing points of view are based more on innate predilections than on disinterested thought or analysis.
Author: Arthur Krystal Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300145608 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
This book examines the role of temperament and taste in the forming of aesthetic and ideological opinions. In provocative chapters about reading and writing, about the relation between life and literature, about knowledge and certainty, about God and death, and about a gradual disaffection with the literary scene, the book demonstrates that opposing points of view are based more on innate predilections than on disinterested thought or analysis.
Author: Jenny Boully Publisher: Coffee House Press ISBN: 1566895189 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 98
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“Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch.” —John D’Agata “Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without ‘complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.’ Jenny Boully has done it.” —Mary Jo Bang “Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writer—in the best way.” —Ander Monson Jenny Boully’s essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterizes falling in love as well as the life of a writer. Literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics rub up against memory, dreamscapes, and fancy, making the practice of writing a metaphor for the illusory nature of experience. Betwixt and Between is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live. Jenny Boully is the author of The Body: An Essay, The Book of Beginnings and Endings: Essays, not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, and other books. Born in Thailand, she grew up in Texas and holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches creative writing and literature at Columbia College Chicago.
Author: Michael Jackson Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520275241 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 218
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In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Although Maurice Blanchot wrote of the impossibility of writing, the passion and paradox of literature lies in its attempt to achieve the impossible--a leap of faith that calls to mind the mystic's dark night of the soul, unrequited love, nostalgic or utopian longing, and the ethnographer's attempt to know the world from the standpoint of others, to put himself or herself in their place. Every writer, whether of ethnography, poetry, or fiction, imagines that his or her own experiences echo the experiences of others, and that despite the need for isolation and silence his or her work consummates a relationship with them.
Author: Joseph Epstein Publisher: W. W. Norton ISBN: 9780393035193 Category : Authors Languages : en Pages : 414
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Gathers essays about the writings of Italo Svevo, Ben Hecht, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, H.L. Mencken, George Orwell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Carl Sandburg, and Anthony Burgess
Author: Mary Oliver Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 0786739487 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 119
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"The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" ( Miami Herald ). This has never been truer than in Long Life, a luminous collection of seventeen essays and ten poems. With the grace and precision that are the hallmarks of her work, Oliver shows us how writing "is a way of offering praise to the world" and suggests we see her poems as "little alleluias." Whether describing a goosefish stranded at low tide, the feeling of being baptized by the mist from a whale's blowhole, or the "connection between soul and landscape," Oliver invites readers to find themselves and their experiences at the center of her world. In Long Life she also speaks of poets and writers: Wordsworth's "whirlwind" of "beauty and strangeness"; Hawthorne's "sweet-tempered" side; and Emerson's belief that "a man's inclination, once awakened to it, would be to turn all the heavy sails of his life to a moral purpose." With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has created a breathtaking volume sure to add to her reputation as "one of our very best poets" (New York Times Book Review ).
Author: C. S. Lewis Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0547543050 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 179
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The theme of this collection is the excellence of the Story, especially the kind of story dear to Lewis-fantasy and science fiction, which he fostered in an age dominated by realistic fiction. On Stories is a companion volume to Lewis’s collected shorter fiction, The Dark Tower and Other Stories. Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.
Author: P A Canon Sheehan Publisher: ISBN: 9781676424147 Category : Languages : en Pages : 208
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A selection of Canon Sheehan's Essays brought out in a shape that, enhances the enjoyment Of perusal, is likely to add to the repute of the author and to be eagerly welcomed by his many admirers.Those who have read Matthew Arnold's preface to his selection of Wordsworth's poems will probably agree that its conclusions apply also to Canon Sheehan's prose essays. The first On the list, " The Literary Life," is a lecture delivered before the Cork Literary Society: itS wealth Of allusions show the breadth Of its author's researches SO that we do not wonder at, his final appeal to our literary leaders. After many helpful hints, he adds -"I feel I am contravening the opinions of each and every section into which modern Ireland is divided when I say that in the work of nation-building the chief requisite should be architects of large, liberal ideas, gathered from the world"s chief thinkers and assimilated so perfectly, that they would be manifested in firmer judgments, wider speculation, more generous Sympathies, and larger toleration than we find in our little world of to-day. And I do not, know where that knowledge is to be acquired unless at the feet of the "masters of those who know" in every age, of every country and clime."If Canon Sheehan spoke the truth of his own literary contemporaries in Ireland, when thus condemning 'provincialism' in thought and scholarship, he would rejoice had he lived to see our day. He seems to describe precisely the spirit of this new and more hopeful time, which may soon be able to show Catholicism to the world in its true sense in every direction-political, social, moral, and religious. This wholly charming and inspiring book will disappoint no one who has the good luck to procure a copy.
Author: P. A. Canon Sheehan Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781494958206 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 212
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From the Preface: CANON SHEEHAN needs no editor's introduction, even to the present generation, though it has lived to see an Ireland vitally different from that so affectionately described in his reminiscent essay, "The Moonlight of Memory" as different, perhaps, as that rather unheroic epoch was from the time of Sarsfield. That essay and another, "Lenten Time in Doneraile," in which he tells of an aspect of our national life which is splendidly unchanging, were written only a year or two before his death. The rest are of much earlier date. The papers on literature were delivered as lectures some thirty years ago. The political and religious essays are for the most part the work of the same period of Canon Sheehan's life, and any topical allusions in them explain themselves. 1896 is the date of the admirable but discarded preface to "The Triumph of Failure," which was itself first published in 1899. "The Dawn of the Century" was delivered as a lecture in 1904. In editing this work I have taken no liberties with the manuscript beyond some trifling alterations in punctuation. The editor of a posthumous work is always faced with this difficulty, that he must pass some things, be they many or few, which he feels sure the author would not have allowed to remain as they are here and there a little roughness or infelicity of expression which would pass unnoticed, or, indeed, be perhaps not out of place in a lecture, must consequently find its way in a permanent form into the published work of a writer who has made for himself his own high place in Anglo-Irish literature. This cannot be helped; but it is only fair to Canon Sheehan's reputation as a finished writer of English to remind the reader of the form in which these essays were left by their author. And, indeed, it is perhaps remarkable that the number of these evidences of lack of care and polish is so few.
Author: Julia Spicher Kasdorf Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271035447 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 230
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"A collection of essays by poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf focusing on aspects of Mennonite life. Essays examine issues of gender, cultural, and religious identity as they relate to the emergence and exercise of literary authority"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Arthur Krystal
Author: Arthur Krystal
Author: Jenny Boully
Author: Michael Jackson
Author: Joseph Epstein
Author: Mary Oliver
Author: W. W. Robson
Author: C. S. Lewis
Author: P A Canon Sheehan
Author: P. A. Canon Sheehan
Author: Julia Spicher Kasdorf