Author: William H. GassPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Habitations of the Word
Author: William H. GassPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Habitations of the Word
Author: William H. GassPublisher:
ISBN: 9780801484889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Brings together the author's reflections on literature, philosophy and the theory of language in pieces that examine a diversity of ideas and writers, including Emerson, Joyce, Dickens, and Pound
Habitations of the Word
Author: William H. GassPublisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671617691
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Brings together the author's reflections on literature, philosophy and the theory of language in pieces that examine a diversity of ideas and writers, including Emerson, Joyce, Dickens, and Pound
The World Within the Word
Author: William H. GassPublisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
William H. Gass, one of america's most brilliant and eclectic minds, examines literature, culture, writers, and the nature and uses of language and the written word.
A Temple of Texts
Author: William H. GassPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307498247
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
From one of the most admired essayists and novelists at work today: a new collection of essays—his first since Tests of Time, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. These twenty-five essays speak to the nature and value of writing and to the books that result from a deep commitment to the word. Here is Gass on Rilke and Gertrude Stein; on friends such as Stanley Elkin, Robert Coover, and William Gaddis; and on a company of “healthy dissidents,” among them Rabelais, Elias Canetti, John Hawkes, and Gabriel García Márquez. In the title essay, Gass offers an annotated list of the fifty books that have most influenced his thinking and his work and writes about his first reaction to reading each. Among the books: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (“A lightning bolt,” Gass writes. “Philosophy was not dead after all. Philosophical ambitions were not extinguished. Philosophical beauty had not fled prose.”) . . . Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist (“A man after my own heart. He is capable of the simplest lyrical stroke, as bold and direct as a line by Matisse, but he can be complex in a manner that could cast Nabokov in the shade . . . Shakespeare may have been smarter, but he did not know as much.”) . . . Gustave Flaubert’s letters (“Here I learned—and learned—and learned.”) And after reading Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, Gass writes “I began to eat books like an alien worm.” In the concluding essay, “Evil,” Gass enlarges upon the themes of artistic quality and cultural values that are central to the books he has considered, many of which seek to reveal the worst in people while admiring what they do best. As Gass writes, “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold, they change the world into words.” A Temple of Texts is Gass at his most alchemical.
Habitation of the Blessed
Author: Catherynne M. ValentePublisher: Night Shade
ISBN: 9781597801997
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Brother Hiob, on missionary work in the Himalayan wilderness, discovers a village guarding a miraculous tree whose branches sprout books instead of fruit. These books chronicle the history of the kingdom of Prestor John, and Hiob becomes obsessed with the tales they tell.
The Apocalypse, Or Book of Revelations, Explained According to the Spiritual Sense; in which are Revealed the Arcana which are There Predicted, and Have Been Hitherto Deeply Concealed. Translated Into English from a Latin Posthumous Work of ... Emanuel Swedenborg [by William Hill] and Revised by the Translator of the Arcana Cœlestia [i.e. John Clowes]. (To which is Subjoined a Summary Exposition of the Internal Sense of the Prophetical Books of the Word of the Old Testament, and of the Psalms of David.) [With the Text.]
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Author: Academic Writing, Philosophy and Genre
Author: Michael A. PetersPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405194006
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
This book investigates how philosophical texts display a variety of literary forms and explores philosophical writing and the relation of philosophy to literature and reading. Discusses the many different philosophical genres that have developed, among them letters, the treatise, the confession, the meditation, the allegory, the essay, the soliloquy, the symposium, the consolation, the commentary, the disputation, and the dialogue Shows how these forms of philosophy have conditioned and become the basis of academic writing (and assessment) within both the university and higher education more generally Explores questions of philosophical writing and the relation of philosophy to literature and reading
Author: Philip Bolton
Author: Philip BOLTON