Life sentences : literary judgments and accounts /
Gass, William H., 1924-
Life sentences : literary judgments and accounts / William H. Gass. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. - 349 p. ; 22 cm.
The personals column: The literary miracle -- Slices of life in a library -- Spit in the mitt -- The first fourth following 9/11 -- What freedom of expression means, especially in times like these -- Retrospection -- Old favorites and fresh enemies: A wreath for the grave of Gertrude Stein -- Reading Proust -- Nietzsche: in illness and in health -- Kafka: half a man, half a metaphor -- Unsteady as she goes: Malcolm Lowry's cinema inferno -- The bush of belief -- Henry James's curriculum vitae -- An introduction to John Gardner's Nickel mountain -- Katherine Anne Porter's fictional self -- Knut Hamsun -- Kinds of killing -- The Biggs lectures in the classics: Form: Eidos -- Mimesis -- Metaphor -- Theoretics: Lust -- Narrative sentences -- The aesthetic structure of the sentence.
9780307595843 (hardcover) 0307595846 (hardcover)
2011033577
Books and reading.
Libros y lectura.
PS 3557 / G251l 2012
814.54
Life sentences : literary judgments and accounts / William H. Gass. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. - 349 p. ; 22 cm.
The personals column: The literary miracle -- Slices of life in a library -- Spit in the mitt -- The first fourth following 9/11 -- What freedom of expression means, especially in times like these -- Retrospection -- Old favorites and fresh enemies: A wreath for the grave of Gertrude Stein -- Reading Proust -- Nietzsche: in illness and in health -- Kafka: half a man, half a metaphor -- Unsteady as she goes: Malcolm Lowry's cinema inferno -- The bush of belief -- Henry James's curriculum vitae -- An introduction to John Gardner's Nickel mountain -- Katherine Anne Porter's fictional self -- Knut Hamsun -- Kinds of killing -- The Biggs lectures in the classics: Form: Eidos -- Mimesis -- Metaphor -- Theoretics: Lust -- Narrative sentences -- The aesthetic structure of the sentence.
9780307595843 (hardcover) 0307595846 (hardcover)
2011033577
Books and reading.
Libros y lectura.
PS 3557 / G251l 2012
814.54