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Except when I write : reflections of a recovering critic /
"I never think except when I sit down to write."--Attributed to Montaigne by Edgar Allan Poe From Montaigne in the sixteenth century to Orwell, Eliot, and Trilling in the twentieth, the best literary essayists combine a gift for observation with an abiding commitment to books. Although it...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Author's Note; Acknowledgements; 1. When Writers Speak; 2. Carpe Noctem: A Little Night Music; 3. Slang-Whanger: William Hazlitt's Impetuous Prose; 4. Too True: The Art of the Aphorism; 5. The Usual Suspect: Edgar Allan Poe, Consulting Detective; 6. A Man for All Reasons: Jacques Barzun; 7. En Garde! The Duel in History; 8. Some Remarks on the Pitfalls of Biography: Especially Where Writers are Concerned; 9. Slow Fade: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood; 10. The Worst of Times: Revisiting the Great Depression; 11. The Long Goodbye: The Sixties-In Pace Requiem.