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Forty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most
incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the twentieth
century. 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, Louis Zukovsky, and
many others. Each essay is a tour of the history of ideas and
imagination, written with wit and startling erudition.
This volume features selections from the New Directions founder's
correspondence with Guy Davenport, the polymath artist and author
of "The Geography of the Imagination." More than simply detailing
an author/publisher relationship, these letters depict two fine
minds educating and supporting each other in the service of
literature.
Selected writings of the remarkable teacher, lecturer, and
scientist, Louis Agassiz, whose enthusiasm for natural history is
communicated with vitality and precision. The editor's introduction
and notes at the beginning of each chapter provide a cogent
analysis of the contributions of the scientist-writer.
In his 1989 book on Balthus-the storied and controversial artist
who worked in Paris throughout the twentieth century-Guy Davenport
gives one of the most nuanced, literary, and compelling readings of
the work of this master. Reading it today highlights the change in
perspectives on sexuality and nudity in art in the past thirty
years. Written over several years in his notebooks, Davenport's
distinct reflections on Balthus's paintings try to explain why his
work is so radical, and why it has so often come under scrutiny for
its depiction of girls and women. Davenport throws the lens back on
the viewer and asks: is it us or Balthus who reads sexuality into
these paintings? For Davenport, the answer is clear: Balthus may
indeed show us periods in adolescent development that are
uncomfortable to view, but the eroticization exists primarily on
the part of the viewer. Arguing that Balthus's figures are erotic
only if we make them so, and that their innocence is more present
than anything pornographic in them, Davenport posits that the
paintings hold up a mirror to our own perversities and force us,
difficultly, to confront them. He writes, "The nearer an artist
works to the erotic politics of his own culture, the more he gets
its concerned attention. Gauguin's naked Polynesian girls, brown
and remote, escape the scandal of Balthus's, although a Martian
observer would not see the distinction." Davenport's critique helps
us understand Balthus in our times-something we need more than ever
as we crucially confront sexual politics in visual art.
Jesus was a street preacher who taught through story and aphorism.
Antedating the Gospels, these 105 sayings were recorded by his
followers during and shortly after his lifetime. Through the
immediacy of direct quotation, Davenport and Urrutia's bold
translation shakes our preconceptions, reintroducing us to the
living teacher whose powerful words ring anew.
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Long Rain (Paperback)
Lenard D Moore; Introduction by Guy Davenport
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1964.
Contains The First Appearance Of Ezra Pound's Ars Vivendi, And
Contributions By Austen Warren, Jean Helion, Guy Davenport, Olivier
Bernier And Others.
The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and
reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal,
including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as
accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of
these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites
even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual
curiosity and a spirit of adventure. Places Lost and Found is a
treasury of distinctive and compelling essays selected from six
decades of the Hudson Review. From a description of the gardens of
Kyoto and a portrait of Syria just before its civil war to
reflections on Veblen and the Mall of America, these essays explore
an array of places that are deeply layered with history and
meaning. The stunning cover photo of the Semper Opera House in
Dresden encapsulates many of the themes of the book: war and its
aftermath, the importance of the built environment in any
discussion of "place," the endurance of civilization and
resilience, and of course the romance of travel.
Since the publication of Tatlin! in 1974, Guy Davenport has
established himself as one of the most original and stimulating
writers of fiction today. Twelve Stories draws the best work from
Davenports early collections: Tatlin! , Apples and Pears , and The
Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers . Chosen by the
author, these stories are nowhere else in print.Guy Davenports
short stories are journeys through history and the imagination.
Radically original and surprising, comic and sensuous, Davenports
virtuoso talent charms us into a world both familiar and strange.
Whether in the timelessness of deep woods or fleeing the bloody
dreamscape of battle, Davenports characters embody lifes
contradictions.
Open the pages of The Hunter Gracchus and step into the remarkable
mind of Guy Davenport, one of this countrys most provocative
writers. Moving effortlessly from snake handling to Wallace
Stevens, these essays take delight in an immense range of topics,
including art and architecture, religion, and literature. Open the
pages of The Hunter Gracchus and step into the remarkable mind of
Guy Davenport, one of this countrys most brilliant and provocative
writers. Hardly the typical essay collection, The Hunter Gracchus
is better described as a collage of ideas, commentary, and
criticism from an eclectic stylist whose sentences ring with
clarity and originality.Moving effortlessly from snake handling to
Wallace Stevens, these essays take delight in an immense range of
topics, including art and architecture, religion and
literature--all approached from Davenports deeply personal point of
view. In one essay, Davenport recalls a lunch with Thomas Merton at
the Ramada Inn, where Merton, already the worlds most famous
Trappist monk, drank several martinis and held forth on the
architecture of Buddhist temples. In another, Davenport finds in
postwar modernism a catalogue of our lost innocence. In the
stunning title essay, he maps out the world of a posthumously
published story by Franz Kafka.Davenport has the singular and
joyous ability to read into human artifacts--Picassos Guernica , a
pattern of bricks, a Shaker design for easy-to-clean revolving
windows. His kinetic prose unfolds surprising connections of
influence, transporting readers from the world of the intellectual
to the world of the extraordinary.The way I write about texts and
works of art, Davenport says in his introductory note, has been
shaped by forty years of explaining them to students in a
classroom. I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for
people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.
The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and
reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal,
including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as
accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of
these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites
even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual
curiosity and a spirit of adventure. Places Lost and Found is a
treasury of distinctive and compelling essays selected from six
decades of the Hudson Review. From a description of the gardens of
Kyoto and a portrait of Syria just before its civil war to
reflections on Veblen and the Mall of America, these essays explore
an array of places that are deeply layered with history and
meaning. The stunning cover photo of the Semper Opera House in
Dresden encapsulates many of the themes of the book: war and its
aftermath, the importance of the built environment in any
discussion of "place," the endurance of civilization and
resilience, and of course the romance of travel.
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Selected Stories (Paperback)
O Henry; Introduction by Guy Davenport
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Eighty stories that display O. Henry's comic eye and unique, ironic approach to life's realities. These stories about con men and tricksters and 'innocent' deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence, have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central America and the South, they demonstrate O. Henry's mastery of speech and place, and highlight his appreciation of life's quirks.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1964.
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