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Habitations of the Word: Essays [Cornell Paperbacks]

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Item specifics

Condition
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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
Author
William Gass
Genre
Philosophy, Literary Collections
Topic
Criticism, Essays
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Width
6.2 in
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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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
Author
William Gass
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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