The world within the word : essays /

The world within the word : essays /

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"In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life ... [Gass] examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of Valéry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, 'art and order,'...

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Main Author: Gass, William H., 1924-2017
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Borzoi Books
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Literary style.
Littérature > Histoire et critique > Collections.
Style littéraire.
Literature, Modern
Littérature
Style
20e siècle
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Essays.
Literary criticism.
[Études diverses]
Critiques littéraires.
Table of Contents:
  • The doomed in their sinking
  • Malcolm Lowry
  • Wisconsin death trip
  • Mr. Blotner, Mr. Feaster, and Mr. Faulkner
  • Gertrude Stein and the geography of the sentence
  • Three photos of Colette
  • Proust at 100
  • Paul Valéry
  • Sartre on theater
  • Upright among staring fish
  • The anatomy of mind
  • Food and beast language
  • Groping for trouts
  • Carrots, noses, snow, rose, roses
  • The ontology of the sentence, or How to make a world of words.

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