Editore: Yale University Press August 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0300105924 ISBN 13: 9780300105926
Da: Eagle Eye Books, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
Paper Back. Condizione: Used.
Editore: Yale University Press August 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 030010281X ISBN 13: 9780300102819
Da: 417 Books, Branson, MO, U.S.A.
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Editore: Yale University Press August 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0300105924 ISBN 13: 9780300105926
Da: Firefly Bookstore, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condizione: Used Good. Front and back covers have light wear to edges and corners. Spine intact, some wear. Binding is intact. Pages are generally clean with minor edge or corner wear. Clearly a pre-owned and used copy but still in readable condition. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.
Editore: Yale University Press August 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0300103913 ISBN 13: 9780300103915
Da: Burke's Book Store, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor corner bump, tight and clean. DJ shows light rubbing/sunning. Signed on affixed bookplate. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Yale University Press August 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0300105924 ISBN 13: 9780300105926
Da: Eighth Day Books, LLC, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Paper Back. Condizione: Very Good. Very light cover wear, firm binding, pristine text.
Editore: Yale University Press August 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0300105932 ISBN 13: 9780300105933
Da: Eighth Day Books, LLC, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Paper Back. Condizione: New. Literary critic Denis Donoghue claims early on he has little to say about beauty and that what he does convey he offers indirectly. The clue to his thesis is a clear reading of his title: Speaking of Beauty -- how and why we speak of it at all. It's fair his aim is even more slippery than tackling the value of beauty head-on. Quoting Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway on the first page of chapter one, Donoghue hooks us on the experience of beauty itself, the ''straightness of a corridor; but also windows lit up, a piano, a gramophone sounding; a sense of pleasure-making hidden, but now and again emerging. Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.'' What's fascinating is that by the last page of that same chapter he's already turned the tables, warning (by way of Hans Urs von Balthasar) against the laxity of letting our talk become sheer adjective or a parade of appearances, easily replaced and presented solely for our personal satisfaction. Admittedly, this is a book of sources ''rife with quotations.'' Discussing Kant, Keats, Dickinson, Hawthorne, James, Yeats, Proust and Eliot (among a host of others), Donoghue draws in Beauty's companions -- the Good and the True -- presenting the three as inseparable values of a whole. With the same sort of depth, he examines beauty's relationship to form and culminates with an extensive chapter on Ruskin's assertions of the beautiful, based in large part on the artist J.M.W. Turner. Concluding as such, Donoghue not-so-subtly suggests the human person as greatest beauty of all.
Editore: Yale University Press August 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0300105894 ISBN 13: 9780300105896
Da: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good+. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. light crease in spine does not compromise binding. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.