Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas - Rilegato

Kirsch, Adam

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ISBN 10: 039324346X ISBN 13: 9780393243468

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2015

Riassunto

Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute...[a] critic of the very first order" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). In these brilliant, wide-ranging essays, published over the last eight years in the New Republic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Kirsch shows how literature can illuminate questions of meaning, ethics, and politics, and how those questions shape the way we take pleasure in art. In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from intellectuals Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, and Walter Benjamin to novelists including E. M. Forster, David Foster Wallace, and Zadie Smith. Kirsch quotes G. M. Hopkins: "Nor rescue, only rocket and lightship, shone." So shines literature, in these unflinchingly bold and provocative essays—as an illuminating, regenerative, and immortalizing force.

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Adam Kirsch is one of the best of our cultural and literary critics. Whether he is dispatching the repellent ideology of Slavoj Zizek or reappraising the literary legacy of E. M. Forster, he writes with stunning force and beautiful lucidity. --Janet Malcolm

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 039324346X
• ISBN 13: 9780393243468
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 303