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Life sentences : literary judgments and accounts / William H. Gass.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.A845 L54 2012
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LIBRA PS3557.A845 L54 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gass, William H., 1924-2017.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 349 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
- Contents:
- The personals column: The literary miracle
- Slices of life in a library
- Spit in the mitt
- The first fourth following 9/11
- What freedom of expression means, especially in times like these
- Retrospection
- Old favorites and fresh enemies: A wreath for the grave of Gertrude Stein
- Reading Proust
- Nietzsche: in illness and in health
- Kafka: half a man, half a metaphor
- Unsteady as she goes: Malcolm Lowry's cinema inferno
- The bush of belief
- Henry James's curriculum vitae
- An introduction to John Gardner's Nickel mountain
- Katherine Anne Porter's fictional self
- Knut Hamsun
- Kinds of killing
- The Biggs lectures in the classics: Form: Eidos
- Mimesis
- Metaphor
- Theoretics: Lust
- Narrative sentences
- The aesthetic structure of the sentence.
- ISBN:
- 9780307595843
- 0307595846
- OCLC:
- 727702896
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