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Literary Luxuries : American Writing at the End of the Millennium by Joe David Bellamy (1995, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Missouri Press
ISBN-100826210295
ISBN-139780826210296
eBay Product ID (ePID)462995
Product Key Features
Number of Pages248 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameLiterary Luxuries : American Writing at the End of the Millennium
Publication Year1995
SubjectAmerican / General, United States / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorJoe David Bellamy
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN95-020790
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"Literary Luxuries is a linked gathering of essays presenting, from lively and provocative points of view, a history and a vision of contemporary writing and culture, an authentic firsthand account of the literary life in our age. I believe that it will arouse and provoke strong reactions from readers who will be captured, as I was, by the intellectual yet personal story it tells. From first to last, we hear Bellamy's voice, and it is the voice of the author and its lively consistency that give this book its undeniable integrity."--George Garrett, "Literary Luxuries is an exciting and informative book that offers readers a coherent overview of American literary history of the last thirty years that is, to my knowledge, unobtainable anywhere else. This book will be an important resource for literary historians and scholars studying the American literary culture of the second half of the twentieth century."--Kelly Cherry, "Joe David Bellamy is one of our foremost editors, writers, and teachers. During its run under Bellamy's editorship, Fiction International quickly became one of the most influential little magazines in this country--right up there with Antaeus and Paris Review--and it is a tribute to its lasting influence that so many of the writers he published early on have gone on to prominence."--T. Coraghessan Boyle
Grade FromCollege Freshman
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal813/.5409
SynopsisFrom the Iowa Writers Workshop to the halls of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts, from the world of literary magazines and writers' conferences to the bizarre realm of the late-twentieth-century American English department, Literary Luxuries takes the reader on a guided tour of American literary life in our time--and the forces threatening its existence. Joe David Bellamy has been a significant figure on the literary scene during the last three decades; as a "literary Everyman," he offers in Literary Luxuries a distinctive and valuable perspective on the culture wars, on education and the imagination, on particular writers and major literary and aesthetic movements, on the role of government in fostering cultural development, and on the day-to-day strife of the writer's life in the United States. As director of the literature program of the National Endowment for the Arts, Bellamy had the unenviable task of trying to persuade Congress and ordinary citizens that American literature is worthy of support, and in Literary Luxuries he continues that debate and helps us to understand its implications: "Literature is our national treasury of language and style and our best reckoning about human life, as it is lived in this time and place." Part memoir, part critique, part impassioned defense of American literary culture and the values it espouses and struggles to uphold, Literary Luxuries offers unforgettable commentary on the literary life in the United States during the last decades of the twentieth century as described from the perspective of one of its key participants.
LC Classification NumberPS379.B424 1995
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