Umfang:
XVI, 567 Seiten
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ISBN:
9781567927771
Inhalt:
"Guy Davenport was perhaps the last great American polymath. He provided links between art and literature, music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present-and pretty much everything in between. Not only had Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages) everything in print, he also had the ability, expressed with unalloyed enthusiasm, to draw connections between how cultural synapses make, define, and reflect our civilization. In this collection, Guy Davenport serves as the reader's guide through history and literature, pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking. In these forty essays we find fresh thinking on Greek culture, Whitman, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Melville, Tolkien, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Charles Olson, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, Lois Zukovsky, and many others. Each essay is a tour of the history of ideas and imagination, written with wit and startling erudition. This Nonpareil edition includes a new introduction by award-winning essayist John Jeremiah Sullivan."--
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781567927788
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Davenport, Guy Geography of the imagination Boston : Godine Nonpareil, 2024 ISBN 9781567927788
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
Sullivan, John Jeremiah 1974-
Mehr zum Autor:
Davenport, Guy 1927-2005
