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Habitations of the Word: Essays [Cornell Paperbacks]
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780801484889
- Book Title
- Habitations of the Word : Essays
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Philosophy, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Criticism, Essays
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
080148488X
ISBN-13
9780801484889
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038770476
Product Key Features
Book Title
Habitations of the Word : Essays
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Topic
Criticism, Essays
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Philosophy, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
84-022917
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
814/.54
Synopsis
Now a Cornell Paperback-- ?These twelve essays take risks, make connections, give off sparks and illustrate Gass's love of language. Using Freudian concepts, he compares the art of writing to the art of becoming civilized: writing parallels the transformation of raw instinct into shared expression. . . . Gass writes with impassioned concern.'--Publishers Weekly ?[These] essays [are] meant to enliven the form as Montaigne, Emerson, and Woolf enlivened it. This is an ambitious task, but no contemporary American has better credentials than Gass. . . . He announces a topic, then descants with impressive erudition and unbuttoned ardor for the surprising phrase. The results often dazzle, and they're unfailingly original, in the root sense of the word--they work back toward some point of origin, generally a point where literature departs from the external world to invent a world of its own.'--Sam Tanenhaus, Village Voice ?William H. Gass is not alone among . . . American fiction writers in giving some of his time and talent to nonfiction, but nobody does it more energetically.'--Frank Kermode, New York Times Book Review, Author William H. Gass analyzes as though under a microscope the many and varied ways writers carpenter structures with words to house language forms. "Using Freudian concepts, he compares the art of writing to the art of becoming civilized: writing parallels the transformation of raw instinct into shared expression. . . . Gass writes with impassioned concern".--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
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