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Rocket and Lightship - Essays on Literature and Ideas (Hardcover) Loot Price: R657
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Rocket and Lightship - Essays on Literature and Ideas (Hardcover): Adam Kirsch

Rocket and Lightship - Essays on Literature and Ideas (Hardcover)

Adam Kirsch

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In these brilliant, wide-ranging essays, published over the last seven years in the New Republic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, renowned American critic Adam Kirsch explores the intersection of literature with larger questions about ideas, history, and society. Kirsch has been described as elegant and astute . . . a] critic of the very first order (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and lives of writers past and present, from intellectuals Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, and Walter Benjamin to novelists including E. M. Forster, David Foster Wallace, and Zadie Smith. Kirsch quotes G. M. Hopkins: Nor rescue, only rocket and lightship, shone. So, according to Kirsch, shines literature: as an unattainable speed, as a moving beacon.

Taken together, the provocative and bold essays in Rocket and Lightship show how literature can illuminate questions of meaning, ethics, and politics, and how those questions shape the way we take pleasure in art."

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Imprint: W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2015
First published: November 2014
Authors: Adam Kirsch
Dimensions: 218 x 150 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24346-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
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LSN: 0-393-24346-X
Barcode: 9780393243468

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