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Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature

de Joseph Epstein

Altres autors: Joseph Blotner (Col·laborador), Eavan Boland (Col·laborador), David Bromwich (Col·laborador), David Carkeet (Col·laborador), Paula Marantz Cohen (Col·laborador)20 més, Stephen Cox (Col·laborador), Daniel Mark Epstein (Col·laborador), Bruce Floyd (Col·laborador), John Gross (Col·laborador), Anthony Hecht (Col·laborador), Dan Jacobson (Col·laborador), Justin Kaplan (Col·laborador), Elizabeth Lowry (Col·laborador), Hilary Mantel (Col·laborador), Barry Moser (Il·lustrador), Robert Pack (Col·laborador), Lois Potter (Col·laborador), Reynolds Price (Col·laborador), William H. Pritchard (Col·laborador), Frederick Raphael (Col·laborador), Tom Shippey (Col·laborador), John Simon (Col·laborador), James L. W. West, III (Col·laborador), A. N. Wilson (Col·laborador), David Womersley (Col·laborador)

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Our finest essayists discuss six centuries of literary genius. "Genius is one of those words upon which the world has agreed to form no clear consensus," Joseph Epstein tells us in his introduction. How then shall we define "literary genius"? In this collection, twenty-five contemporary authors endeavor to answer that question by considering twenty-five classic writers and their enduring works. We learn that, more important than mere originality or creativity, it is the ability to make us experience the world in new ways that sets these writers apart. "My task," Joseph Conrad wrote, "is by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel--it is above all to make you see. That--and no more, and it is everything." Wood-engraved portraits and illustrations by renowned artist Barry Moser accompany each essay. Contents: 1. Tom Shippey on Geoffrey Chaucer 2. Lois Potter on William Shakespeare 3. Reynolds Price on John Milton 4. Anthony Hecht on Alexander Pope 5. David Bromwich on Samuel Johnson 6. David Womersley on Edward Gibbon 7. Dan Jacobson on William Wordsworth 8. Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen 9. Frederick Raphael on William Hazlitt 10. Evan Boland on John Keats 11. Daniel Mark Epstein on Nathaniel Hawthorne 12. A. N. Wilson on Charles Dickens 13. Justin Kaplan on Walt Whitman 14. William Pritchard on Herman Melville 15. Paula Marantz Cohen on George Eliot 16. Bruce Floyd on Emily Dickinson 17. David Carkeet on Mark Twain 18. Joseph Epstein on Henry James 19. Elizabeth Lowry on Joseph Conrad 20. Stephen Cox on Willa Cather 21. Robert Pack on Robert Frost 22. Joseph Blotner on William Faulkner 23. John Gross on James Joyce 24. John Simon on T.S. Eliot 25. James L. W. West III on Ernest Hemingway Joseph Epstein, from his introduction: "Literary genius comes in many varieties. Some literary geniuses seem natural (Charles Dickens, Mark Twain), others cultivated (George Eliot, Henry James). Some are prolific (Wordsworth, Whitman), some are more carefully concentrated (Jane Austen, T. S. Eliot). Some literary geniuses are stimulated by the difficult (Alexander Pope, John Milton). Some require absolute originality -- entailing the need to invent their own style -- to convey their vision (James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway). Some have perfected a form (Pope, the heroic couplet), some have tried to kill off a genre (Joyce, the novel). Not some but all literary geniuses can be read again and again, down through the generations. As Hilary Mantel, in her essay on Jane Austen, writes: ''Surely this is the definition of genius in a writer: the capacity to make a text that can give and give, a text that is never fully read, a text that goes on multiplying meanings.'' Timelessness this is called, and it is another of the hallmarks of literary genius." Joseph Epstein is the author of nineteen books, most recently In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage. For more than twenty years he was editor of The American Scholar. A contributor to The New YorkerCommentaryThe Atlantic, theTimes Literary Supplement, and other magazines, he also taught for many years in the English Department at Northwestern University. Barry Moser is an illustrator, author, and designer whose work appears in museums and libraries around the world. He has published nearly three hundred titles, including Lewis Carroll''s Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland, which won the American Book Award in 1983. In 1991 he won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for his collaboration with Cynthia Rylant, Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds. A member of the National Academy of Design, he has served on the faculty of Rhode Island School of Design and is currently on the faculty of Smith College.… (més)
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Joseph Epsteinautor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
Blotner, JosephCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Boland, EavanCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Bromwich, DavidCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Carkeet, DavidCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Cohen, Paula MarantzCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Cox, StephenCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Epstein, Daniel MarkCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Floyd, BruceCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Gross, JohnCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Hecht, AnthonyCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Jacobson, DanCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Kaplan, JustinCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Lowry, ElizabethCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Mantel, HilaryCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Moser, BarryIl·lustradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Pack, RobertCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Potter, LoisCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Price, ReynoldsCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Pritchard, William H.Col·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Raphael, FrederickCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Shippey, TomCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Simon, JohnCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
West, James L. W., IIICol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Wilson, A. N.Col·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Womersley, DavidCol·laboradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
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Our finest essayists discuss six centuries of literary genius. "Genius is one of those words upon which the world has agreed to form no clear consensus," Joseph Epstein tells us in his introduction. How then shall we define "literary genius"? In this collection, twenty-five contemporary authors endeavor to answer that question by considering twenty-five classic writers and their enduring works. We learn that, more important than mere originality or creativity, it is the ability to make us experience the world in new ways that sets these writers apart. "My task," Joseph Conrad wrote, "is by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel--it is above all to make you see. That--and no more, and it is everything." Wood-engraved portraits and illustrations by renowned artist Barry Moser accompany each essay. Contents: 1. Tom Shippey on Geoffrey Chaucer 2. Lois Potter on William Shakespeare 3. Reynolds Price on John Milton 4. Anthony Hecht on Alexander Pope 5. David Bromwich on Samuel Johnson 6. David Womersley on Edward Gibbon 7. Dan Jacobson on William Wordsworth 8. Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen 9. Frederick Raphael on William Hazlitt 10. Evan Boland on John Keats 11. Daniel Mark Epstein on Nathaniel Hawthorne 12. A. N. Wilson on Charles Dickens 13. Justin Kaplan on Walt Whitman 14. William Pritchard on Herman Melville 15. Paula Marantz Cohen on George Eliot 16. Bruce Floyd on Emily Dickinson 17. David Carkeet on Mark Twain 18. Joseph Epstein on Henry James 19. Elizabeth Lowry on Joseph Conrad 20. Stephen Cox on Willa Cather 21. Robert Pack on Robert Frost 22. Joseph Blotner on William Faulkner 23. John Gross on James Joyce 24. John Simon on T.S. Eliot 25. James L. W. West III on Ernest Hemingway Joseph Epstein, from his introduction: "Literary genius comes in many varieties. Some literary geniuses seem natural (Charles Dickens, Mark Twain), others cultivated (George Eliot, Henry James). Some are prolific (Wordsworth, Whitman), some are more carefully concentrated (Jane Austen, T. S. Eliot). Some literary geniuses are stimulated by the difficult (Alexander Pope, John Milton). Some require absolute originality -- entailing the need to invent their own style -- to convey their vision (James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway). Some have perfected a form (Pope, the heroic couplet), some have tried to kill off a genre (Joyce, the novel). Not some but all literary geniuses can be read again and again, down through the generations. As Hilary Mantel, in her essay on Jane Austen, writes: ''Surely this is the definition of genius in a writer: the capacity to make a text that can give and give, a text that is never fully read, a text that goes on multiplying meanings.'' Timelessness this is called, and it is another of the hallmarks of literary genius." Joseph Epstein is the author of nineteen books, most recently In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage. For more than twenty years he was editor of The American Scholar. A contributor to The New YorkerCommentaryThe Atlantic, theTimes Literary Supplement, and other magazines, he also taught for many years in the English Department at Northwestern University. Barry Moser is an illustrator, author, and designer whose work appears in museums and libraries around the world. He has published nearly three hundred titles, including Lewis Carroll''s Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland, which won the American Book Award in 1983. In 1991 he won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for his collaboration with Cynthia Rylant, Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds. A member of the National Academy of Design, he has served on the faculty of Rhode Island School of Design and is currently on the faculty of Smith College.

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