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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226284069
ISBN-139780226284064
eBay Product ID (ePID)2424386
Product Key Features
Book TitleTests of Time : Essays
Number of Pages330 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEssays
Publication Year2003
GenreLiterary Collections
AuthorWilliam Gass
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight13.9 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-043557
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal815/.54
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments LITERARY MATTERS The Nature of Narrative and Its Philosophical Implications Anywhere but Kansas Invisible Cities Sidelonging I've Got a Little List The Test of Time SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTRETEMPS The Writer and Politics: A Litany Tribalism, Identity, and Ideology The Shears of the Censor Were There Anything in the World Worth Worship How German Are We? THE STUTTGART SEMINAR LECTURES Quotations from Chairman Flaubert There Was an Old Woman Who Transformations
SynopsisTests of Time brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H. Gass, "the finest prose stylist in America" (Steven Moore, Washington Post ). Whether he's exploring the nature of narrative, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, or the relationships between the stories we tell and the moral judgments we make, Gass is always erudite, entertaining, and enlightening.