E-book
Life sentences literary judgments and accounts
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307957443 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307957446 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (349 p.) - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | The personals column: The literary miracle -- Slices of life in a library -- Spit in the mitt -- The first fourth following 9/11 -- What freedom of expression means, especially in times like these -- Retrospection -- Old favorites and fresh enemies: A wreath for the grave of Gertrude Stein -- Reading Proust -- Nietzsche: in illness and in health -- Kafka: half a man, half a metaphor -- Unsteady as she goes: Malcolm Lowry's cinema inferno -- The bush of belief -- Henry James's curriculum vitae -- An introduction to John Gardner's Nickel mountain -- Katherine Anne Porter's fictional self -- Knut Hamsun -- Kinds of killing -- The Biggs lectures in the classics: Form: Eidos -- Mimesis -- Metaphor -- Theoretics: Lust -- Narrative sentences -- The aesthetic structure of the sentence. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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