Apples and Oranges - In Praise of Comparisons (Paperback)

What does it mean when people say "You can't compare apples and oranges"? Are comparisons across genres inherently invalid, or can they be insightful and illuminating? In this brilliant and provocative collection of essays, Dutch author Maarten Asscher maintains that comparisons can be the highest form of argument.
Asscher makes his case with examples drawn from classical to contemporary history, art, and literature: Hamlet in Ithaca and Telemachus in Elsinore, the Mediterranean and the North Sea, writing from a prison cell and writing from a room at home, the "suicide" of Primo Levi and Japanese Kamikaze pilots, and so on. With graceful erudition and idiosyncratic wit, Asscher demonstrates how the comparative method can provide insight not only into two subjects simultaneously, but also into fundamental issues they may have in common.

General

Imprint:	Four Winds Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2015
First published:	October 2014
Authors:	Maarten Asscher
Translators:	Brian Doyle-Du Breuil
Dimensions:	215 x 139 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-940423-06-7
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-940423-06-6
Barcode:	9781940423067

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